Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 11.25.2015

We are very sorry to have to report that Christopher Brooks was called to the Warden’s office and given a January 21st execution date. "This action is premature," wrote John Palombi in an email. Palombi is an assistant federal defender for the Middle District of Alabama who represents Brooks. "A final evidentiary hearing for the other five plaintiffs is scheduled for April 19, 2016, less than five months away.” The Board is in the process of crafting a petition which we will be releasing shortly.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 11.18.2015

This week our thoughts and prayers were with our friends and supporters of Francophones contre la peine de mort  in Paris and with friends of ACAT-France who for many years now join us in prayer on the nights of an execution here in Alabama. With every taking of life, whether it is an execution, a terrorist attack or a murder, it is always the human face that makes the horror real, “the one that breaks one’s heart.”

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 11.11.2015

Today is Veterans Day and as we paused to remember all veterans we thought especially of the 300 Veterans who are on our country’s death rows, many suffering from PTSD.  Right here at Holman we have a veteran, suffering from PTSD whose unanimous recommendation for life by the jury was overridden by the judge.  Shameful!

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 11.4.2015

As the midazolam hearing before Judge Watkins takes place this week it is good to keep the words of Attorney Palombi of the Federal Defenders in mind that “nothing will be decided this week.”

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 10.28.2015

Well friends it is official! Our Development Officer Brandon Fountain and his family will be leaving Alabama in November for South Carolina. Brandon has accepted a position with South Carolina Appleseed Justice Center in a capacity very similar to his present work with Greater Birmingham Ministries.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 10.21.2015

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 10.14.2015

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 10.7.2015

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 9.30.2015.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison, 9.23.2015.

Again some good news! This time it is that Nebraska’s attempt to import an execution drug from India, months after the state legislature banned capital punishment in the state, failed last month because of mishandled paperwork, according to BuzzFeed News.