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Date. August 15, 1994. State (s) Alabama. The execution of Joe Nathan James Jr. (July 25, 1972 – July 28, 2022) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of lethal injection. James was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of his ex-girlfriend, 26-year-old Faith Hall. His execution generated significant media attention and controversy ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arizona.After the execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, executions were temporarily suspended but resumed in 2022. [1] [2] On January 23, 2023, newly inaugurated governor Katie Hobbs ordered a review of death penalty protocols and in light of that, newly inaugurated attorney general Kris Mayes issued a hold on any executions in the state.
Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court qualified the rule it set forth in Enmund v. Florida (1982). Just as in Enmund, in Tison the Court applied the proportionality principle to conclude that the death penalty was an appropriate punishment for a felony murderer who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibited a ...
Alabama can proceed with its plan to put to death Barber on Thursday evening — its first execution since a pause on capital punishment prompted by a series of failed lethal injection attempts ...
Wendi Elizabeth Andriano (née Ochoa; born August 6, 1970) [1] is an American female prisoner on death row in Arizona. She was convicted of the 2000 murder of her terminally ill husband, Joe. She is incarcerated at the Lumley Unit in the Arizona State Prison Complex - Perryville. Her inmate number is #191593. [2]
Victims. Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, 45. 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.
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [ 1] Women represent about 1.13 percent of the 1,594 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2]
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.