The editor of an Alabama news site asked state officials to investigate after a reporter said she was told she couldn’t cover an execution because her skirt was too short.
Scott said she sent a letter to Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Corrections asking for a public apology and an inquiry into the conduct Thursday of a spokesperson at William C. Holman Correctional Facility.was behind the move to bar Hrynkiw from covering the event., Hrynkiw said she’d worn the skirt to prior executions and professional events without incident and believed it was “more than appropriate.
The spokesperson “deemed this an appropriate swap,” but then told Hrynkiw her open-toe heels were also “too revealing and I needed to change my shoes,” the journalist said.A sign for The William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., on March 12, 2016.“Despite wearing a pair of waders from a man I have never met and casual tennis shoes, I continued to do my job,” she said.
So, her skirt and shoes are the story now, not the execution. As annoying as it is to her, a man was executed and the man had a family and somehow the reporter is reporting about herself.
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