An Alabama death row inmate is once again appealing to have his execution delayed. APR’s Alex AuBuchon has the latest.
Alabama inmate Christopher Brooks is asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to halt his execution. His death sentence is currently scheduled to be carried out on January 21.
Brooks’s attorney filed the notice of appeal yesterday. Earlier this month, a federal judge denied an emergency motion for a stay of execution.
Brooks argues his execution should be postponed until a court decides whether the state's new lethal injection drug combination is constitutional.
He along with five other death row inmates filed a lawsuit challenging the lethal injection process.
Brooks is scheduled to be put to death next month for the rape and murder of Deann Campbell more than 20 years ago. The execution would be Alabama's first in more than two years.
Engineers in Mobile have been working to make sure a Gulf coast New Year’s tradition goes off without a hitch.
Alabama will mark the beginning of 2016 with the Moon Pie drop down the RSA Tower. The eight hundred pound model of a Moon Pie will travel three hundred and twenty five feet down the building. It’s a sixty second trip that ends with the striking of midnight.
Steve Timms is director of construction and development for the Retirement Systems of Alabama. He’s in charge of the Moon Pie drop, which does lead to a little teasing…
“One of the years we did this, there was a fellow who shows up in an actual Moon Pie suit. And someone asked for an interview, and they called me ‘Mr. Moon Pie’ on the air. So, I have been ribbed about that.”
The New Year’s eve event will include live music and a laser light show before the official dropping of the Moon Pie.
An Alabama senator is opening up the checkbook for during Thursday’s College Football Playoff semifinal.
Republican Richard Shelby has bought $6 Million worth of television ads for the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic where Alabama takes on Michigan State.
According to Politico, the ads will continue to run all the way through the National Championship if the Crimson Tide were to advance.
Shelby has spent almost 30 years in Washington, serving once as a Democrat before switching to the Republican Party in 1994.