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Alabama halts executions; can't fix them

After a gruesome series of executions gone wrong, Gov. Kay Ivey hits pause. But there's no fixing the death penalty

Salon

Suspect sought in Greyhound employee’s slaying arrested in Alabama

Chicago police said the Oct. 24 attack outside the downtown bus station was a “targeted” shooting and appeared to be gang-related.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alabama death row inmate describes state’s botched execution attempt

Kenneth Eugene Smith set to be put to death with nitrogen gas but spoke out angrily in December when his killing by lethal injection was abandoned after prison personnel struggled to place an IV

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Alabama governor demands pause in executions after third failed lethal injection attempt

Alabama governor Kay Ivey has demanded a pause in executions and review of the state's capital punishment system after the failed attempt to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday

Daily Mirror

Why Alabama QB Bryce Young makes sense for the Texans instead of Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud

The Houston Texans will have to make a tough decision at quarterback in 2023, but there are reasons why Bryce Young should be the top pick.

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Alabama's Governor Calls for a Moratorium on Executions in the State

While the pause comes as a relief to those opposed to the death penalty, Ivey's full-throated defense of the practice makes it clear that she seeks only a temporary pause in executions, not an end to the policy.

Reason

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022

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Alabama Jails Woman for Endangering Her Fetus. She Wasn't Pregnant.

Plus: Jack Daniels sues Bad Spaniel, Oregon issues marijuana pardons, and more...

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Key quotes from Tom Izzo in press conference before Phil Knight Invitational

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Alabama is pausing executions after a 3rd failed lethal injection

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.

WEKU

Alabama pausing executions after 3rd failed lethal injection

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection

The Independent UK

Austin Peay vs. Alabama, live stream, preview, TV channel, time, how to watch college football

The Austin Peay Governors will meet the Alabama Crimson Tide in college football action at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Election conspiracists claim some races for local offices

Republicans who supported former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election lost bids for statewide offices that play key roles in overseeing voting in the six states that decided the last presidential election

The Independent UK

Alabama failed to complete an execution by lethal injection for a third time

The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.

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Challenge to U of Alabama's "Free Speech Zone" Policy Can Proceed, Under Alabama Campus Free Speech Act

Today's decision of the Alabama Supreme Court in Young Americans for Liberty v. St. John holds that a University of Alabama "free speech zone" policy violates the Alabama Campus Free Speech Act, which generally requires state universities to implement policies (and which is based in some measure on the Goldwater…

Sports Illustrated

Alabama High School Football Playoffs Scores, Brackets

Follow the quarterfinals and 7A semifinals of the Alabama AHSAA football playoffs on SBLive.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why are states having lethal injection problems?

A scheduled execution in Alabama was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn’t find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into

Reason

Alabama Execution Called Off Because Officials Couldn't Insert Needle

For the second time in three months, the state struggles and fails to execute a death row inmate.

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The Independent UK

Alabama fails to complete lethal injection for 3rd time

Alabama started and then stopped another lethal injection because prison workers were unable to establish the intravenous lines needed to administer a deadly dose

The Independent UK

Everything we know about the four Buchanan sisters who vanished in Alabama

Buchanan sisters disappeared from their home in Sylacauga

The Independent UK

Alabama father arrested after four young sisters disappear from small town

The father was detained for “interference with custody” after temporary care responsibilities were handed to state’s department of human services

USA Today Sports Media Group

Raiders select Alabama DE Will Anderson Jr. in latest 2023 mock draft

Daily Mirror

Hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith who killed preacher's wife dodges execution at 11th hour

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who killed preacher's wife Elizabeth Sennett for a $1,000 bounty saw the deadline for his execution pass after a failure to find a vein to inject the lethal dose

The Independent UK

Woman convicted in kidnapping of 3-year-old Alabama girl

Federal jurors have convicted an Alabama woman in the death of a 3-year-old girl whose disappearance prompted a search for more than a week in 2019

WEKU

Louisiana voters rejected an antislavery ballot measure. The reasons are complicated

Voters in four states — Vermont, Oregon, Alabama and Tennessee — approved antislavery ballot measures in the 2022 elections. The Louisiana amendment may have failed, in part, because of confusion.

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