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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]
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 conducted by lethal injection.
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 ...
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 ...
The execution was eventually called off after prison employees were unable to set an IV line into Smith’s veins, making it the third failed lethal injection attempt in Alabama in 2022. Death row ...
Alabama sets a date to execute a death row inmate by nitrogen gas, governor says, a method never used in the US. Devon M. Sayers and Emma Tucker, CNN. November 9, 2023 at 9:14 AM.
Capital murder (3 counts), [ a] attempted murder [ 1][ 2] Criminal penalty. Death. The execution of Nathaniel Woods occurred on March 5, 2020, at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama. The execution was controversial due to beliefs of his innocence, skepticism about his culpability, and the fairness of his trial. [ 6]
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 87 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.