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The Council on American-Islamic Relations is welcoming a decision by the State of Alabama to grant a request of a Muslim death row inmate. The Department of Corrections will not conduct an autopsy following the planned execution of Keith Gavin.
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CNN is reporting that the State of Alabama is agreeing to a request from Muslim death row inmate that his body not be autopsied following his planned execution next week. This follows action by the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization.
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An Alabama inmate will not ask the courts to block his execution next week but is requesting that the state not perform an autopsy on his body because of his Muslim faith, according to a lawsuit.
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The U.S. Department of Justice, which sued Alabama over prison conditions, filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit by prisoners who said they are subjected to unconstitutional levels of violence and excessive force.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks.
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Lawyers for an Alabama inmate asked a judge to block the nation's second scheduled execution using nitrogen gas, arguing the first was a "horrific scene" that violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. In Alabama alone, at least three men have died since 2015.
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Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method.
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The warden of an Alabama prison was arrested on drug charges, officials with the state prison system confirmed.
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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped at an ATM. Justices granted the Alabama attorney general's request to authorize an execution date for Keith Edmund Gavin. Governor Kay Ivey will set the day of the execution, which will be carried out by lethal injection.