EXECUTION ALERT

Alabama has set 8.21.2025 as the execution date by nitrogen gas asphyxiation for

David Lee Roberts

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. Mr. Roberts has suffered from inherited, generational mental illness since his teens. He has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. These conditions along with persistent growing threats against his family from a known criminal created a situation where Mr. Roberts could be – and was – substantially dominated and manipulated into violent acts by another person.

2. Mr. Roberts’ jury voted for a sentence of life without the possibility of parole which the judge overrode.

3. The execution method to be used, nitrogen gas asphyxiation is neither quick nor painless, but agonizing and painful as was demonstrated at the executions last year. It amounts to cruel and unusual punishment which is barred by the U.S. Constitution.

4. 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.