Alabama plans to execute an inmate on Thursday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to carry out its first lethal injection after a pause in executions following a string of problems with inserting the IVs.
Attorneys for an Alabama inmate on death row asked a federal appeals court Monday to block his upcoming execution, arguing the state has a history of troubled lethal injections.
The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place the sentence of a woman on Alabama’s death row who was convicted of helping her boyfriend kill his two young children.
Former Gov. Don Siegelman and former Gov. Robert Bentley say they are troubled by the state’s death penalty system
A federal appeals court on Friday said Alabama cannot execute a man with an IQ in the 70s, agreeing with a lower court’s ruling that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is unconstitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with an Alabama death row inmate wants to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia when he is ultimately executed.
The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of an inmate this summer as the state attempts to resume lethal injections following a series of troubled executions.
An internal review of Alabama’s execution procedures is complete and the state will resume lethal injections, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday.
The Alabama Supreme Court has denied a new trial for a death row inmate even though the district attorney, a former state attorney general and a former chief justice say his conviction should be reexamined.
Alabama won’t seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line.
