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McWhorter second incarcerated person executed in Alabama this year

Casey McWhorter, 49, was executed by the state via lethal injection for the 1993 murder and robbery of Edward Lee Williams Sr.

November 17, 2023

Gov. Kay Ivey set the execution date and time for Casey McWhorter, an incarcerated individual on death row.

October 19, 2023

The new multi-episode docuseries asks the central question: why is Johnson still on death row?

October 2, 2023

Alabama, for some reason, has now volunteered to be the guinea pig state responsible for developing the newest execution method.

September 4, 2023

Barber was the first individual to be executed since the state’s moratorium on executions was lifted.

July 21, 2023

"We do not trust the Alabama Department of Corrections to properly investigate itself, and who would?" an organizer said.

March 27, 2023

The ADOC has reviewed itself and determined that the real cause of its three botched executions were all of these laws.

February 27, 2023

The letter suggests state officials follow the example of the state of Tennessee, which launched an independent investigation.

February 24, 2023

There are issues that most of Alabama knows we need to address. I’ll write about them over and over again.

January 31, 2023

Executions in Alabama were previously carried out by the Alabama Department of Corrections in a single 24-hour window.

January 16, 2023