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Governor Kay Ivey’s clemency decision serves justice and offers an opportunity to address Alabama’s unfinished work on judicial override sentences.
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Clemency stories
Governor
Anti-death penalty advocates urged clemency, citing Taylor’s age when the crimes occurred and what they described as decades of change on death row.
News
The group said 25 Alabama death row prisoners remained under sentences imposed through a practice the state abolished in 2017.
Opinion
The political calculus can be unforgiving: show mercy and risk criticism; refuse and face little political consequence.
President
Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals who were serving the remainder of their sentences in home confinement.
Legislature
HB27 would make Alabama’s ban on judicial override apply to those currently on death row.