Alabama to Continue Using Lethal Injection After Failed Executions; Death Row Inmate Appeals
Alabama wants to execute a prisoner via lethal injection for the first time since IV placement issues prevented executions in the state.
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Alabama wants to execute a prisoner via lethal injection for the first time since IV placement issues prevented executions in the state.
James Edward Barber argued that Alabama's history of botched executions meant he could be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center. Meanwhile, Alabama planned to execute an inmate on Thursday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state sought to carry out its first lethal injection after a pause in executions following a string of problems with inserting the IVs.
An Alabama man on death row who has been fighting his sentence was executed Friday morning.
James Barber, 64, is scheduled to be put to death at a south Alabama prison - the first lethal injection since the state paused executions following a string of problems