Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
Denying that prison officials or law enforcement are to blame for the problems, Ivey said "legal tactics and criminals hijacking the system are at play here." Marshall, the state's top prosecutor, didn't immediately say whether he would agree to Ivey's request. The attorney general "read the governor’s and commissioner’s comments with interest" and "will have more to say on this at a later date," said spokesman Mike Lewis.
The executive director of the organization, Robert Dunham, said Ivey was right to seek an investigation and a pause, but any review of the system needs to be done by someone other than the state's prison system. While Ivey blamed defense efforts for execution failures, Dunham said her "willful blindness" to the prison system's woes were part of the problem.
Alabama's execution of Joe Nathan James Jr. took several hours to get underway in July because of problems establishing an IV line, leading anti-death-penalty group Reprieve US Forensic Justice Initiative to claim the execution was botched.because of difficulty accessing his veins. Miller said in a court filing that prison staff poked him with needles for more than an hour, and at one point left him hanging vertically on a gurney before announcing they were stopping.
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