Tag: Capital punishment

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to let Alabama carry out the execution of a convicted double murderer by nitrogen hypoxia. A firing squad now appears to be the only remaining option available to the State, though Alabama law does not currently authorize that method.

A group of Attorneys General from across the country has dispatched a letter to Pamela Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, with the hope of working to correct a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008, striking down state capital punishment laws for child rape.

A bill by State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) permitting the death penalty for child sex offenders is heading to the Alabama Senate after clearing the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

The State of Alabama successfully carried out the nitrogen gas execution of a combative Carey Dale Grayson on Thursday evening for the 1994 kidnapping, murder and mutilation of a female hitchhiker.

There’s both a moral and constitutional case for why this crime deserves death.

Governor Kay Ivey called for a halt on all executions after a rash of unsuccessful lethal injections has presented a dim view of the state's protocols.