Kim Chandler

March 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The decision ended litigation filed in 2020 challenging the laws on behalf of people who had been ticketed or jailed for panhandling in Montgomery. Legal groups that filed the lawsuit said the laws criminalized poverty.

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

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January 19, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's office called the time window change a "win for justice" and supporters said the appeal change would ease the burden on the court system. But a noted death penalty lawyer said the changes end a crucial avenue of review and increase the likelihood of "more cruelty and potential torture."

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

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November 30, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Defendants' treatment of Mr. Smith does not fall within society's standards for a constitutional execution. The botched execution was terrifying and extremely painful for Mr. Smith," attorneys for Smith wrote in the complaint filed in federal court.

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

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November 18, 2022 | Daily Report Online

It is the second execution since September the state has canceled because of difficulties with establishing an IV line with a deadline looming.

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

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November 17, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"I have heard repeatedly as I travelled through the state for the last year and a half that people want us out of ERIC [Electronic Registration Information Center]. They don't want their personal information or the personal information of their children to be sent to this out-of-state group," Wes Allen said.

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

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November 10, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"We're trying to understand what went wrong and why," Mara Klebaner, an attorney representing inmate Alan Miller, told Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr.

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

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October 03, 2022 | Daily Report Online

The invisible line dividing two of Alabama's congressional districts slices through Montgomery, near iconic sites from the civil rights movement as…

By Kim Chandler, Mark Sherman and Gary Fields | The Associated Press

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October 29, 2019 | Daily Report Online

District Judge Myron Thompson issued an expected preliminary injunction temporarily blocking Alabama from enforcing the law that would make performing an abortion a felony in almost all cases.

By Kim Chandler, The Associated Press

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April 20, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, was executed Thursday night. He had been convicted of sending four mail bombs in December 1989, killing an 11th Circuit judge in Alabama and a Savannah civil rights attorney. Two bombs were intercepted and did not explode. He was convicted in 1991 in federal court on dozens of bomb-related charges.

By Kim Chandler, Associated Press

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April 19, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday and become the oldest inmate put to death since executions resumed in the U.S. in the 1970s.

By Kim Chandler Associated Press

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