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The cost of a new Alabama super-size prison now under construction rose to more than $1 billion, complicating the state's plans to build two of the behemoth facilities. The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority approved a final price of $1.08 billion for the prison now under construction in Elmore County.
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An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the "experimental" execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state's request to carry out his death sentence using the new method.
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A jury convicted a former Alabama prison sergeant of federal charges in connection with the 2018 beating of an inmate. Devlon Williams was a former sergeant with the Alabama Department of Corrections. He was convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law, falsification of records and obstruction of justice, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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An Alabama inmate who appeared on social media videos with what appeared to be a handgun, while describing the prison as a deadly "war zone," was arrested for what the prison system called a security incident at the lock-up.
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Two inmates and a correctional officer were arrested Thursday after an inmate died in Elmore, Alabama, authorities said.
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Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections after failed executions prompted the governor to order an internal review of procedures.
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The Alabama prison system said that it is not ready to carry out executions by nitrogen hypoxia despite a remark by the attorney general's office suggesting the untested method could be used next month.
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James Barber will be Alabama’s first death row inmate set for execution since last year.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a July date for the state's first attempt at a lethal injection following a series of troubled executions.
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A federal appeals court on Friday said Alabama cannot execute a man with an IQ in the 70s, agreeing with a lower court's ruling that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is unconstitutional.