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Supreme Court to hear Alabama appeal in push to execute intellectually disabled man

The inmate killed a man by beating him to death with a hammer and saw.

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2025

Daughter of murder victim explains why she opposed killer’s execution: ‘This needs to stop’

Carey Dale Grayson was executed by Alabama on Thursday evening for his role in the 1994 murder of Vickie Deblieux

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2024

Alabama death row inmate asks for no autopsy after execution due to his religion

Keith Gavin’s attorneys said the filing is not an attempt to stop the execution from going ahead

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2024

Alabama rushing to resume executions

Top state officials seem more interested in killing more killing than in fixing their gruesome mistakes

Salon · Feb 28, 2023

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

WEKU · Jan 19, 2023

Alabama inmate ‘baked to death’ in prison cell, says lawsuit

‘He had dreams of obtaining his freedom, joining his mother and starting a new and productive life’

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2022

Attorneys: 'Botched' execution caused pain and torture

Attorneys say an Alabama inmate was "subjected to ever-escalating levels of pain and torture” during an aborted execution

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2022

Alabama failed to complete an execution by lethal injection for a third time

The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.

WEKU · Nov 19, 2022

Former officer: Alabama 'not in control' of state prisons

A former corrections officer said Alabama is no longer in control of its prisons and said he believes federal officials should intervene in the system

The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2022

Alabama inmates go on strike to protest ‘deplorable’ conditions, unpaid labour

Guards asleep on duty, meagre meals and cells covered in filth: incarcerated people across the southern US state of Alabama have refused to work since September 26 in protest against shocking conditions in overcrowded facilities, including violence, neglect and poor hygiene. The strike has brought prisons, which depend on and…

France 24 · Oct 6, 2022