Tag: DEATH ROW

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) came out in support of Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision to commute the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who served over three decades on Alabama’s death row.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said a man whose death sentence was commuted on Tuesday by Gov. Kay Ivey was nothing but a career criminal who could have been put to death a long time ago.

A man sentenced to death in the 1988 killing of a Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy could get a new trial after the United States Supreme Court declined to review a ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The nitrogen hypoxia execution of Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled to take place between 12 a.m. on September 26 and midnight on September 27.

The state of Alabama is set to be the first state to put to death a prisoner by using nitrogen gas, but a federal judge may halt the execution due to the method the state approved.

The man sentenced to death in a 1993 deadly home invasion was executed Thursday night.

A man who killed a 75-year-old woman with a claw hammer in 2001 could be executed this summer, 22 years after being put on Alabama’s death row.

The Alabama Supreme Court brought about a rule change on Thursday that will allow the governor to set a time frame for execution warrants in the state. 

An Alabama death row inmate is scheduled to be put to death Thursday night. Joe Nathan James Jr., who was convicted of a 1994 murder, is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m.

The state of Alabama carried out the execution of a man at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility late Thursday night.   Matthew...