Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a day in July for the first attempt to administer a lethal injection after a series of executions that have run into trouble.
The Governor’s office has established that the execution of James Barber will take place between zero hours on July 20 and 6 am on July 21. The 30-hour recess was set to give the state prison system more time after the two most recent executions were canceled due to problems with IV lines.
This is the first scheduled lethal injection in the state after Ivey decided in 2022 to suspend them to review procedures. The review resulted in the removal of the midnight cutoff, giving the state more time to apply the IV and the detainee more time for last-minute appeals.
Barber was sentenced to death in 2001 for beating a 75-year-old woman to death.
Alabama prison authorities stayed the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith just before midnight in November because members of the execution team could not find a suitable vein after trying for an hour.
In September, the state canceled the execution of Alan Miller after multiple attempts to access the detainee’s vein.
Source: TSF
