The execution of James Barber, the first Alabama inmate to be executed after the state’s pause, may go ahead
Alabama can go ahead with its plan to execute convicted murderer James Barber on Thursday night, his first execution since a lull on capital punishment sparked by a series of failed lethal injection attempts was lifted in February.in a miss 2-1A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday denied Barber's request to block his execution out of fear that he might be subject to "substantial harm."Jamie Barbero.Alabama Department of CorrectionsThe majority wrote that the lower court did not err in finding that the Alabama Department of Corrections modified its execution procedures, so its "assessment that the same pattern would continue to…
