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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 78 people (77 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama.

Alabama is the only state whose anti-death penal­ty orga­ni­za­tion (Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty) was found­ed by death row inmates in 1989. The Chairman and Board are at Holman Prion on death row.

Jan 25, 2024 · Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that...

As of January 2025, Alabama had 158 inmates on death row, the 4th highest number in the US. [22] A governor has commuted only one death sentence since 1976: outgoing Governor Fob James commuted Judith Ann Neelley 's death sentence to life in prison in January 1999.

Jan 17, 2025 · An Alabama Death Row inmate, who is set to die next month by nitrogen gas, is arguing that he shouldn’t be in Alabama’s custody at all.

May 1, 2024 · Despite a 2017 Alabama law banning judges from sentencing defendants to death when juries recommend life in prison, 30 inmates remain sentenced under those circumstances on death row.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Supreme Court has issued an order to carry out the sentence of death row inmate Demetrius Terrence Frazier by Nitrogen Hypoxia and the Alabama Department of Corrections is proceeding with this statutory duty. Frazier was sentenced to death for the 1991 capital murder of Pauline Brown in Jefferson County.

Jan 30, 2024 · There are 164 inmates on death row, according to data from the Alabama Department of Corrections. In a Friday morning news conference, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said 43 inmates...

Jan 7, 2025 · Alabama is set to execute its first inmate of 2025 in February, following a record-setting year of executions.