And this evening,
Alabama is said to put to death its
first prisoner since a pause on capital punishment
comes after a number of failed lethal injection attempts,
James Barbour,
64 years old lost an appeal yesterday in which
he argued he would be subject to substantial harm in
the execution.
Barber was convicted of murdering a 75 year old
woman for whom he worked as a handyman.
The director of an anti death penalty group is quoted as saying
three executions in a row went horribly wrong in Alabama last year.
Yet officials have asserted that no
deficiencies were found in their execution process
this morning,
Oklahoma executed 51 year old Jermaine Cannon
who was sentenced to death after being convicted
in the 1995 stabbing of a 20 year old woman.
It's the state's second execution this year and the nine
th since the state resumed a lethal injection since 2021.