Tag: Alabama

I witnessed Alabama execute a man using nitrogen gas. It was horrific and cruel.

Nobody alive was closer to the nation’s first and thus far only nitrogen hypoxia execution than I was. As Kenneth Smith’s spiritual adviser, I saw every horrific second before, during and after the curtains closed. I want to make something perfectly clear: Anyone who claims that this was anything short of torture is not just mistaken, they are a dangerous liar. Kenny Smith’s execution was […]

4 men killed in shooting at neighborhood car wash in Alabama

Police are investigating a quadruple homicide in Birmingham, Alabama. On Friday afternoon, officers were dispatched to a report of multiple shots fired and found four victims lying unresponsive on the ground near an open lot, the Birmingham Police Department said in a news release. All four had apparent gunshot wounds. The four men were identified […]

Alabama Senate approves SB1 increasing absentee voting restrictions

Feb. 17—Alabama Senate Republicans approved legislation limiting the assistance available to absentee voters Tuesday, Feb. 13. The bill’s sponsor, local delegate Sen. Garlan Gudger, said the bill is designed to protect election integrity within the state, but opponents argued that the bill is, at its best, unnecessary and has the potential to discourage voter participation. […]

Alabama death row inmate files complaint over nitrogen gas executions

ALABAMA (WHNT) — A new filing in Federal District Court is asking the court to stop another Alabama inmate from execution by nitrogen gas, saying that the execution of Kevin Eugene Smith using the method was ‘botched.’ The new filing, made on behalf of death row inmate David Wilson, argues executing Wilson using the current […]

Alabama should neither prevent nor encourage gambling

Governments exceed their proper powers when they force persons to do things for their own good, or when they forbid persons from doing what might harm them. The relationship of government to citizen is not one or parent to young child. Governments exceed their proper powers when they forbid persons from gambling, because how people […]

Walker County man killed in Sunday crash on Alabama Highway 69

A Walker County man died early Sunday morning in a single-vehicle crash in Tuscaloosa County. Troopers said Robert D. Odom, 53, of Oakman was killed when his 2012 Toyota Tundra pickup left the road and struck a ditch on Alabama Highway 69. Odom was ejected from his vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene […]

Alabama proposes law criminalizing some forms of absentee ballot voter aid

A bill to criminalize some kinds of absentee ballot voter assistance – creating a felony on par with statutory rape or involuntary manslaughter – sped out of an Alabama state senate committee Wednesday. The proposed legislation on senate bill 1 initially prohibited people other than close family members or co-habitants from helping any voter request […]