In 2024, Governor Kay Ivey ordered the most executions of any state, a move I wrote showed “Alabama’s justice system treats human beings like hogs.” This year hasn’t been different as I wrote back in February in “Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama”; in April in “Alabama’s torturous death penalty hums on”; and, most recently, just a few weeks ago in “shoot me, hang me, just please don’t gas me,” which in Alabama are “the desperately grim pleas for mercy from the condemned.”

In that last essay I highlighted how, “Alabama has savagely gas-tortured five human beings to death since early 2024 — and a 6th nitrogen-gassing is planned in the state on September 25, and a 7th on October 23.” I insisted that “men and women of conscience must protest courts, politicians, lawyers, and the correctional

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