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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old man who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery

Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, has been on death row roughly half his life

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation to allow visiting judges to be brought in to handle violent criminal cases to get them to trial more quickly

The president seems optimistic. It's not clear why.

A federal judge has ruled that the Alabama attorney general can't prosecute groups who help Alabama women obtain abortions in another state

Experts say victory for state could give green light for other states to attack those who help women travel for procedure

Many social media users pointed out the hypocrisy of the deeply Christian state gleefully ending so many lives.

Derrick Dearman had written a letter to the Alabama Attorney General requesting to be executed

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