U.S. Executions Resume in Alabama and Oklahoma

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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.