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…
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 …
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…
Methods of Execution
,Jun 15, 2021
As South Carolina and Arizona prepare to resume executions using gruesome methods of the past, Alabama prosecutors say the state is nearly ready to perform executions using a new, untested method,…
Secrecy
,Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,Aug 11, 2021
Alabama and Mississippi have undertaken preparatory steps towards resuming executions in the face of continuing legal challenges to their methods of execution. On August 2, 2021, Alabama’s Department of C…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Methods of Execution
,Jan 28, 2022
A divided U.S. Supreme Court voted 5 – 4 on January 27, 2022 to allow Alabama to execute an intellectually disabled death-row prisoner, vacating an injunction issued by a federal district court on January 7 and unanimously upheld by a panel of the U…
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…
Intellectual Disability
,Upcoming Executions
,Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 19, 2021
An intellectually disabled Alabama death-row prisoner has appealed a federal district court ruling that clears the way for his execution on October 21, 2021. On October 17, a federal district court judge denied for a secon…
