Entries tagged with “Southern Poverty Law Center”

Nov 23, 2022

Alabama Governor Halts Executions After Latest in Series of Execution Failures

**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 caused Alabama to call off the November 17, 2022 exe­cu­tion of **Kenneth Smith**. The botched exe­cu­tion of Smith marked the third time since 2018 and the sec­ond time in two months that Alabama had called off an exe­cu­tion in process. In…