Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the U.S. will give Alabama full custody of a convicted package bomber who killed a federal judge so the state can execute him on Thursday. In a Monday court filing, the Justice Department said it would waive its right to custody of Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. The filing came after Moody argued he should be…
U.S. District Judge Robert Vance, Sr. Killed by a package bomb in 1989. Judge Robert Vance, Jr. tells Alabama News Network he “doesn’t know how to answer” the question of whether or not he has forgiven the man who murdered his father with a mail bomb just before Christmas in 1989. He says he did felt closure in regard to…
Alabama has executed a man who killed his employer at a traveling carnival decades ago and later dropped appeals and asked for the death sentence to be carried out. Authorities say 50-year-old Michael Wayne Eggers was pronounced dead at 7:29 p.m. CDT Thursday after an injection at the state prison in Atmore. Eggers was sentenced to death for his conviction…
The Supreme Court has removed an obstacle to Alabama’s efforts to execute a convicted killer who is in declining health. The justices on Monday unanimously reversed an appellate ruling that had blocked the execution of 67-year-old inmate Vernon Madison. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that Madison is incompetent to be executed because he doesn’t understand his…
An Alabama inmate who challenged execution drug as cruel is put to death for killing police officer in 1997. Earlier tonight the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the stay of execution for 40-year-old Torrey McNabb. McNabb was pronounced dead at 9:38 p.m. Thursday. McNabb used his last statement to tell his mother and sister that he was unafraid and he cursed…
A man convicted of killing three people during the 1994 robbery of an Alabama fast-food restaurant was put to death by lethal injection. Authorities say 46-year-old Robert Melson was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m. CDT Thursday at a southwest Alabama prison. The execution was the state’s second of the year. State prosecutors said Melson and another man who used to…
MONGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on the execution of an Alabama inmate scheduled for Thursday (all times local): 10:20 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted the stay on an Alabama execution that had been scheduled for this week. The court late Tuesday vacated an emergency stay that had been granted Friday to Robert Melson. The 11th U.S. Circuit…
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a long shot request to reconsider the appeal of an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed by lethal injection next month. Justices on Monday refused the rehearing request by Tommy Arthur, who has had seven execution dates postponed. The court in November stayed Arthur’s execution to consider whether to hear the appeal centered…
Here is a timeline of the execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate last night at Holman Prison in Atmore. ATMORE, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate (all times local): 11:15 p.m. A man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk has been put to death in Alabama, hours after the state’s execution…
Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate who was convicted in the 1982 killing of a man in a murder-for-hire arrangement. Tommy Arthur is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday. Arthur, now 74, was convicted of murdering Troy Wicker in 1982 as the man slept inside his Muscle Shoals home. Investigators said Arthur was having an…
