Alabama Lethal Injection

A man who admitted to killing five people in 2016 has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama. Derrick Dearman was pronounced dead Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama.

Alabama is preparing to put to death a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016. Derrick Dearman is to be executed by lethal injection at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He dropped his appeals this year to allow his execution to go forward.

The State of Alabama is just hours away from the planned execution of Alan Miller. He was convicted in the 1999 murders of three co-workers. And, this isn’t the only high profile execution in the U.S. Back in 1989, I was assigned to cover the electrocution of serial killer Ted Bundy. Here’s a look back at that story.

The State of Alabama is set to carry out the nation’s second execution by nitrogen hypoxia tonight. Alan Miller is scheduled to die for the 1999 murders of two co-workers and his supervisor. Alabama conducted the first ever nitrogen gas execution back in January

Alabama's governor has set a November 21st execution date for what is scheduled to be the nation's third death sentence carried out by nitrogen gas. Republican Kay Ivey set the execution date for Carey Dale Grayson after the Alabama Supreme Court last week ruled that it could take place. Grayson was one of four teenagers convicted in the 1994 killing of 37-year-old Vickie Deblieux in Jefferson County.

A third person is set to be executed by nitrogen gas, Alabama authorized Wednesday, months after becoming the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

Six families, who had loved ones die in the state prison system, have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections and others, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies. The families crowded into a Montgomery courtroom Tuesday for a brief status conference in the consolidated litigation.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed by chemical injection Thursday evening in Alabama. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said.

An Alabama inmate on death row, whose death sentence led to discussions about the Constitutional right of religious freedom, will be executed on Thursday, July 18 by lethal injection. Keith Gavin is Muslim. He’s sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of a delivery driver.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is welcoming a decision by the State of Alabama to grant a request of a Muslim death row inmate. The Department of Corrections will not conduct an autopsy following the planned execution of Keith Gavin.