Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday that the state is ready to resume executions and 'obtain justice' for victims' families after lethal injections were paused for three months for an internal review of the state's death penalty procedures.
This July 7, 2010, file photo shows Nebraska's lethal injection chamber at the State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday that the state is ready to resume executions and "obtain justice" for victims' families after lethal injections were paused for three months for an internal review of the state's death penalty procedures.
In a Friday letter to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Ivey wrote that it is "time to resume our duty in carrying out lawful death sentences." Ivey had asked Marshall to stop seeking execution dates until the review was complete. "In Alabama, we recognize that there are crimes so heinous, atrocious and cruel ... that the only just punishment is death," Marshall said.
Christine Freeman, executive director of the Middle District of Alabama Federal Defender Program, a nonprofit that represents people on death row, said the result of Ivey's review is "disappointing, but sadly not surprising." It was the third such instance of the state calling off an execution because of IV line difficulties. The state completed an execution in July after problems establishing an IV line, but an anti-death penalty group has claimed the execution was botched.
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