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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized an execution date for a man convicted in the 2004 slaying of a couple during a robbery. Justices on Wednesday granted the Alabama attorney general’s request to authorize an execution date for 50-year-old Jamie Mill. Gov. Kay Ivey will set the exact date.
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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of an inmate this summer. The state is attempting to resume lethal injections following a series of troubled executions.
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The Associated Press reports Alabama Attorney General’s office turned over a letter that jurors in a murder case say they never saw. It’s been sixteen years since David Phillip Wilson was sentenced to death for killing a man during a 2004 burglary.
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Governor Kay Ivey says an internal review of the state's execution procedures is complete and the state will begin scheduling lethal injections. She initiated the review in November after three lethal injections were aborted because of problems with intravenous lines.
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The State of Alabama is apparently responding to a series of failed lethal injections by changing the rules by which the Department of Corrections executes death row inmates.
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system. The move occurred after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
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Alabama has called off a scheduled execution for the second time since September. Kenneth Smith faces the death penalty for the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife. His execution was called off after the state had trouble establishing an IV before the midnight deadline to get the execution underway.
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An Alabama lawyer has asked the courts to delay an execution because of the possible spread of COVID-19. Fifty-one-year-old Willie Smith is scheduled to…
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ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted as an accomplice in the 2004 shooting deaths of three police officers in which another man pulled the trigger has been…
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ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a country preacher during a 1991 robbery was put to death by lethal injection in Alabama on Thursday, weeks…