Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Capital punishment is legal in Alabama, as it is in most U.S. states. Capital punishment dates back to 1812, when present-day Alabama was still part of the Mississippi Territory.Alabama has the highest per capita death penalty rate in the country. In some years, it imposes more death sentences than Texas, a state with a population five times as large.Intentional murder with any of 18 aggravating factors can be charged as capital murder.Alabama is the only state in which judges routinely override the jury's decision not to impose the death penalty. Delaware and Florida also allow for judge override, however it has only been applied reversing the death penalty, not imposing it.This practice is no longer constitutionally permissible since the United States Supreme Court expressly prohibited it in Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002), but nearly 100 have been sentenced to death in Alabama since 1976 as a result of a judicial sentencing override. Executions are carried out at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama.Fifty-one people have been executed by the state of Alabama since 1983 (24 by electrocution and 27 by lethal injection).As of 2014, Alabama has 197 inmates on death row, the 4th highest number in the US.As in any other state, people who are under 18 at the time of commission of the capital crime or are mentally retarded are nationally exempt from execution. The Governor of Alabama has the authority to grant a commutation of sentence in capital (as well as non-capital) cases. There has been only one commutation of a death sentence since 1976: Judith Ann Neelley's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by outgoing Governor Fob James in January 1999."@en }
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- Capital_punishment_in_Alabama abstract "Capital punishment is legal in Alabama, as it is in most U.S. states. Capital punishment dates back to 1812, when present-day Alabama was still part of the Mississippi Territory.Alabama has the highest per capita death penalty rate in the country. In some years, it imposes more death sentences than Texas, a state with a population five times as large.Intentional murder with any of 18 aggravating factors can be charged as capital murder.Alabama is the only state in which judges routinely override the jury's decision not to impose the death penalty. Delaware and Florida also allow for judge override, however it has only been applied reversing the death penalty, not imposing it.This practice is no longer constitutionally permissible since the United States Supreme Court expressly prohibited it in Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002), but nearly 100 have been sentenced to death in Alabama since 1976 as a result of a judicial sentencing override. Executions are carried out at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama.Fifty-one people have been executed by the state of Alabama since 1983 (24 by electrocution and 27 by lethal injection).As of 2014, Alabama has 197 inmates on death row, the 4th highest number in the US.As in any other state, people who are under 18 at the time of commission of the capital crime or are mentally retarded are nationally exempt from execution. The Governor of Alabama has the authority to grant a commutation of sentence in capital (as well as non-capital) cases. There has been only one commutation of a death sentence since 1976: Judith Ann Neelley's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by outgoing Governor Fob James in January 1999.".