Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.16.17

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 8.9.17

"Well, I'm kind of fond of the death penalty," said Rich. "I think we need the death penalty in the state of Alabama, so we're continuing to fight the Equal Justice Initiative and big law firms who have millions of dollars and want to come down here and reverse all of our death penalty cases." Ashley Rich is the Mobile County District Attorney.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 7.26.17

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 7.19.17

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 7.12.17

On  June 23rd the Alabama Attorney General’s office requested execution dates for Torrey Twane McNabb, Jeffrey Lynn Borden and Doyle Lee Hamm. This in spite of botched recent executions in this state and a total lack of transparency of how or where the execution drugs were purchased and their expiration date.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 7.5.17

Thanks to the Alabama Supreme Court's extended celebration of the Fourth of July there is no news to report, not of the negative kind anyway.  Things were quiet at Holman as well although the awards for the championship competitions were handed out yesterday.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 6.28.17

We quote from an article in the Atlantic “The U.S. Supreme Court’s latest term, which ended this week as the justices began their summer recess, saw death-penalty opponents achieve some notable victories even as the Court moved further away from abolishing capital punishment.” And although we welcome the “notable victories” the reality that the Court moved further away from abolishing the death penalty is the bottom line.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 6.21.17