Arbitrariness
,Executions Overview
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 26, 2017
Alabama has set an execution date for Doyle Lee Hamm (pictured), a 60-year-old man with terminal cranial and lymphatic cancer that his lawyer says has rendered his veins unusable for lethal injection. Hamm has rec…
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Nov 29, 2021
Alabama death-row prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm (pictured), whose botched executio…
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…
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…
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 …
Lethal Injection
,Mar 30, 2018
One month after Alabama called off its two-and-a-half hour attempted execution of Doyle Hamm, the state reached a confidential settlement agreement in which it agreed not …
Arbitrariness
,Jul 26, 2016
Doyle Lee Hamm (pictured), an Alabama death row prisoner, has asked the United States Supreme Court to consider his case after Alabama’s state and federal appellate courts upheld an order in which the trial court rejected his appe…
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…
Lethal Injection
,Jun 01, 2018
A federal district court has ordered the Alabama Department of Corrections to release its lethal-injection protocol and unseal transcripts and pleadings related to the failed execut…
Botched Executions
,Aug 08, 2022
The sister of death-row prisoner Joe Nathan James Jr. has called for an investigation into his botched execution following a statement by an Alabama Department of Correction’s spokesperson that ADOC could not conf…
Arbitrariness
,Clemency
,United States Supreme Court
,Executions Overview
,Lethal Injection
,Feb 23, 2018
Three states — Alabama, Florida, and Texas — prepared to carry out controversial executions on Thursday, February 22, all scheduled for 7 PM Eastern time, but by the end of the night, two had been halted. Less than an hour befo…
