Jamie Ray Mills is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening at Holman Prison in Escambia County.
An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection.
An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend in Birmingham decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life.
Matthew Reeves was convicted of killing Willie Johnson with a shotgun inside a pickup truck during a robbery.
The annual vigil for hate crime victims was held this rainy Sunday on the Capitol steps. Next year will be the 20th year for the vigil, which began as a way to draw attention to the murder of a gay man, Billy Jack Gaither, in Sylacauga. The two men convicted of the murder—Steven Mullins and Charles Butler were sentenced to…
Alabama is asking an appellate court to let the November execution of an inmate go forward. The state attorney general’s office on Friday asked the 11th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals to reject Tommy Arthur’s request for a stay. The state argues Arthur has used abusive litigation tactics to “escape” execution. Arthur had been scheduled for execution on six previous…
Corrections officials say another officer has been assaulted at a troubled prison in south Alabama. A statement from the department says a lieutenant at Holman prison in Atmore was trying to control an inmate when the man assaulted the officer with a makeshift weapon on Thursday. The officer was treated for a minor cut above one of his eyes, and…
A memorial service is being held for an Alabama corrections officer who died after being stabbed by an inmate. Gov. Robert Bentley will speak at the Wednesday memorial service in Anniston honoring corrections officer Kenneth Bettis. Bettis’ name is being added to the Alabama Law Enforcement Memorial wall in Anniston. Bettis died Sept. 16 after succumbing to injuries from a…
Alabama Department of Corrections officials are responding to unofficial and erroneous reports of corrections officers participating in a strike at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Prison officials are acknowledging that nine officers did not report for the facility’s third shift on Saturday. In response, and as standing operating procedure, officers from other ADOC facilities were assigned to…
The Alabama Department of Corrections is reporting an inmate work stoppage at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Early Friday, prison officials reported that group of approximately 10 inmates did not report to the facility’s kitchen for preparing the morning meal. Later Friday, approximately 35 inmates assigned to the facility’s tag plant that produces the state’s license plates…
