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Alabama executes Keith Edmund Gavin for 1998 murder

Gavin was convicted of the 1998 murder of William Clayton Jr., who was shot outside of a bank in Centre.

July 19, 2024

After Thursday's execution, Gov. Kay Ivey said, "In Alabama, we uphold the rule of law." Which laws are those, exactly?

November 17, 2023

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

The state will now have 30 hours to carry out the execution, a six-hour boost over the previous limit.

May 31, 2023

By contradicting Ivey on the execution moratorium, Marshall made clear that respect for decency and law aren't important to him.

December 6, 2022

The governor asked the attorney general not to seek additional executions for other incarcerated people until after "a top-to-bottom review."

November 21, 2022

Commissioner John Hamm assured Ivey that the Department of Corrections was prepared to carry out the death sentence successfully, only to fail again.

November 18, 2022

The judge took issue with ADOC's secretive ways and mishandling of nitrogen hypoxia documents.

October 19, 2022

It is time to spare the life of Alan Eugene Miller and all the other persons on death row.

September 1, 2022

The account from Joe Nathan James' autopsy is horrifying, and no one in Alabama government is talking about it.

August 22, 2022