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Julia Tutwiler Prison houses the state's female death row inmates. Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its courts impose more death sentences than Texas, a state that has a population five times as large. [ 1]
List of people executed in Alabama. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 75 people (74 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were ...
Date. March 18, 1988. Imprisoned at. Holman Correctional Facility [ 1] The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [ 2] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988, murder-for ...
Attorneys said that Grayson, and 180 other inmates on death row in Alabama at the time were given a choice in July 2018 to opt for nitrogen hypoxia as their preferred execution method. The ...
August 6, 2024 at 9:47 AM. Dave Martin/AP. The office of Alabama’s attorney general has settled a federal lawsuit filed by death row inmate Alan Miller over the state’s plan for him to become ...
Alabama death row inmate James Barber was executed early Friday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay over fears that he could be subject to “substantial harm ...
Patrick Cunningham. Weapon. .38 caliber pistol. Doyle Lee Hamm (February 14, 1957 – November 28, 2021) was an American death row inmate in Alabama, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1987 murder of Patrick Cunningham, whom he killed while committing a robbery. While on death row, Hamm developed lymphatic cancer, which made it ...
Alabama finalized the first-ever execution protocols for the new method in August after its legislature in 2018 approved the alternative method to lethal injection, the Death Penalty Information ...