US state Alabama pausing executions after third failed lethal injection

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Alabama's Governor has ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system. 9News

Ivey's office issued a statement on Monday saying she had both asked Attorney General Steve Marshall to withdraw motions seeking execution dates for two inmates and requested that the Department of Corrections undertake a full review of the state's execution process.

Smith's attorneys claim that the convicted murderer suffered several injuries when Alabama Department of Corrections personnel attempted for "approximately one hour to gain the necessary venous access for the execution" and made "several attempts at accessing veins in several locations." Denying that prison officials or law enforcement are to blame for the problems, Ivey said “legal tactics and criminals hijacking the system are at play here.”Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the department is fully committed to the review and is “confident that we can get this done right.”

Alabama Arise, a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of the poor, said Marshall should agree to a moratorium and urged legislators to “do their part to reduce the unfairness of Alabama’s death penalty system.” “The Alabama Department of Corrections has a history of denying and bending the truth about its execution failures, and it cannot be trusted to meaningfully investigate its own incompetence and wrongdoing,” he said.

Ivey asked the state to withdraw motions seeking execution dates for Miller and James Edward Barber, the only two death row inmates with such requests before the Alabama Supreme Court.

 

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Hell if he is dead in the end who gives a shit how they got the result and how long it took. Just use a hangman as it goes wrong they are still dead with the sudden stop at the end of the fall and at worst the head is ripped off as happened a few times.

9NewsMelb And there we go again worrying about the welfare of the prisoner, forgetting about the victims. If you can’t get it right in death row, replace it, LIFE with NO parole🤨

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