Kay Ivey, Alabama

"You can't just up and commute a death sentence in Alabama. That's like canceling Christmas, or Robert E. Lee Day." ...
Marshall, ever the political opportunist, instead chose to frame the governor’s decision as an affront to his authority ...
Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday she has commuted the death sentence for a man convicted for the 1991 murder of a Decatur ...
The Alabama Federation of Republican Women opposes a bill to make the Alabama Veterans Affairs commissioner an appointee of ...
Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.
For Marshall, restraint is weakness. His rage over Ivey’s decision reveals a man who sees capital punishment not as a last ...