Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 9.20.17

The attorney for Gary Otte who was executed last week by the state of Ohio stated that she believed that the inmate suffered pain during lethal injection. She tried but was unable to get help to stop the execution. Ohio, like Alabama uses midazolam in its execution protocol. In addition, more bad news also for us was that the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a stay even though Otte had been under the age of 21 at the time of the crime.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 9.13.17

Lawyers last Wednesday asked the Alabama Supreme Court to stop the executions since the 11th Circuit Court ordered hearings in a separate lawsuit challenging the humaneness of the state’s lethal injection procedure. They argued the execution should not go forward while there's a pending trial on the "constitutionality of the method of execution that the state intends to use."

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 9.6.17

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.30.17

The Alabama Supreme Court set the following execution dates: Jeffrey Borden, October 5th 2017; Torrey McNabb, October 19th 2017. We will be sending out Talking Points and will also post them on our website and on our Facebook page.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.23.17

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.16.17

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.9.17

"Well, I'm kind of fond of the death penalty," said Rich. "I think we need the death penalty in the state of Alabama, so we're continuing to fight the Equal Justice Initiative and big law firms who have millions of dollars and want to come down here and reverse all of our death penalty cases." Ashley Rich is the Mobile County District Attorney.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 7.26.17