Capital punishment in Alabama

Julia Tutwiler Prison houses the state's female death row inmates.

Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its courts impose more death sentences than Texas, a state that has a population five times as large.[1] However, Texas has a higher rate of executions both in absolute terms and per capita.[2]

  1. ^ Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza (2014-07-27). "With Judges Overriding Death Penalty Cases, Alabama Is An Outlier". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  2. ^ "State Execution Rates (Through 2020)". Archived from the original on 2021-02-07. Retrieved 2019-12-14.