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November 22, 2022

Alabama Governor Halts Executions After Third Botched Lethal Injection
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In Alabama, Governor Kay Ivey has issued a sweeping order to pause all
executions statewide and ordered a review of Alabama's capital
punishment system, after a series of botched attempts to deliver lethal
injections in at least three executions this year. Just last week,
Alabama called off the killing of Kenneth Eugene Smith after officials
struggled to establish an IV line for his lethal injection. Alabama
canceled another execution in September for the same reason.


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