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Derrick Dearman executed in Alabama for murder of girlfriend's 5 family members
Alabama executed Derrick Dearman on Thursday ... two IV lines that carried the deadly cocktail that ended Dearman's life.
Alabama can proceed with nitrogen gas execution of Carey Dale Grayson this month, judge rules
Carey Dale Grayson is set to die Nov. 21. He was convicted of the brutal Feb. 22, 1994, slaying and mutilation of Vicki Lynn ...
US Supreme Court calls ruling ‘unclear’ on whether Alabama Death Row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith intellectually disabled
The nation’s highest court weighed in on an Alabama Death Row inmate’s case on Monday, asking the appeals court to again rule ...
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Alabama’s 2nd nitrogen gas execution raises questions about method’s future use
As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method’s future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness ...
Federal judge denies request to block Alabama nitrogen gas execution
A federal judge Wednesday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution later this month by ...
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Supreme Court orders more review of Alabama’s request to execute inmate courts said is intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability. Joseph Smith ...
The Independent28d
Alabama executes man who killed five, including pregnant woman, and welcomed his own death sentence
Alabama has executed a death row inmate convicted of killing five people, including a pregnant woman, in 2016. Derrick Dearman, 36, died by lethal injection at William C Holman Correctional ...
Supreme Court Orders New Look at IQ Scores in Death Resentencing
The US Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at how it decided an Alabama man on death row was ...
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Alabama executes death row inmate who pleaded guilty to killing five people in 2016
Oct. 17 (UPI) --The state of Alabama executed death row inmate Derrick Dearman by lethal injection Thursday evening for the brutal axe killings of five people in 2016. The execution began at 6 p.m ...
USA Today28d
Derrick Dearman executed in Alabama for murder of girlfriend's 5 family members
Alabama executed Derrick Dearman on Thursday ... Dearman, who had been on death row since 2018, wrote a series of letters to state officials, including Attorney General Steve Marshall, informing ...