Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 09, 2022
During a December 5, 2022 press conference, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (pictured) discussed the state’s review of its lethal injection process, rejecting the media’s characterization of it as a “moratorium” on executions and urging th…
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Nov 30, 2022
Alabama officials have agreed not to make a second attempt to execute Alan Miller by lethal injection after the state had to call off his September 22, 2022 execution because of the failure to establish an IV line…
Lethal Injection
,Jul 27, 2023
On July 21, 2023, Alabama death row prisoner James Barber was executed two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his motion for a stay in a 6 – 3 decision. This marks the state’s first execution since a series of three botched executions in 2022…
Human Rights
,Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,Sep 21, 2022
A federal district court issued an order on September 19, 2022 to halt the scheduled September 22, 2022 execution of Alabama death-row prisoner Alan Miller “by any method other than nitrogen hypoxia,” leading to …
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 15, 2022
As part of her response to a series of botched executions, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has sent a letter to the Alabama Supreme Court asking it to allow the Department of Corrections to extend the time within which…
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Nov 23, 2022
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (pictured) has halted executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom review” of the state’s execution procedures, five days after failures by corrections personnel to establish an intravenous execution line caus…
Methods of Execution
,Sep 15, 2022
Alabama prosecutors have told a federal judge that the state will not execute death-row prisoner Alan Miller by nitrogen hypoxia on September 22, 2022, three days after suggesting there was a “very good chance” it…
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 19, 2022
Alan Eugene Miller has asked federal courts to bar Alabama from setting a second execution date days after the Alabama Attorney General’s office filed a motion in the state’s Supreme Court to expedite a new execution warrant. The state attempted t…
History of the Death Penalty
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 07, 2022
On December 7, 1982, Texas strapped Charles Brooks to a gurney, inserted an intravenous line into his arm, and injected a lethal dose of sodium thiopental into his veins, launching the lethal-injection era of American executions. In the precisely …
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Sep 26, 2022
A federal district court has ordered Alabama state officials to preserve evidence related to the state’s failed attempt to execute death-row prisoner Alan Miller on September 22, 2022. The botched execution attempt, Alabama’s third since 2018, cam…
Methods of Execution
,Oct 24, 2023
In August 2023, Alabama released the first-ever execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, an untested execution method in which prisoners will be put to death by suffoca…
