Execution Alert  “ALL LIFE IS SACRED!”

Alabama has set 2.11.21 as an execution date for

WILLIE B. SMITH III

Please contact Governor Kay Ivey and ask her to stay this execution and remind her of her statement “ that all life is sacred!”

THE HONORABLE GOVERNOR Kay Ivey

STATE CAPITOL N 104

600 Dexter Ave

MONTGOMERY, AL 36130 2751 

PHONE 1-334-242-7100

FAX: 1-334-242-3282

Email: http://governor.alabama.gov/contact/

Suggested Talking Points

1. Alabama has no clear and carefully documented execution protocol but plans on using a secret and untried protocol. The men will be guinea pigs!

2. Instead, Alabama ought to delay all executions to allow for a thorough study of its capital punishment process and consider the serious objections raised as to how it administers the death penalty.

TALKING POINTS FOR TOMMY D ARTHUR:

1) Protocol challenge pending in Federal Court
2) Lost/destroyed evidence.

Suggested Talking Points

1).Mr. Smith has a strong Atkins claim and is intellectually disabled and should therefore not be executed.

2). Alabama is failing to reveal the expiration date of the execution drugs.

3). Alabama is failing to reveal the source of its execution drugs.

4). Alabama still uses a method of execution with drugs considered by some States to be in violation of the Constitution and ethically, morally wrong.

5) Alabama ought to delay all executions to allow for a thorough study of its capital punishment process and consider the serious objections raised as to how it administers the death penalty.

6) The number of people entering and leaving the facility during executions could turn them into COVID-19 spreader events that would put other prisoners' lives in danger.