Ivana Hrynkiw

2 weeks ago | al.com | Ivana Hrynkiw

Note: This story will be updated throughout the day. The man convicted of a brutal sexual assault and murder nearly four decades ago is set to be executed by Alabama on Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, he’s waiting on the outcome of an appeal he filed himself to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a halt to the execution. Gregory Hunt, 65, is scheduled to die by inhaling pure nitrogen gas at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

3 weeks ago | al.com | Ivana Hrynkiw

A man convicted in a 1988 murder of a Jasper woman is asking a court to rule his death sentence unconstitutional, arguing he didn’t sexually assault the victim with a broomstick like the prosecutor at his trial claimed. Gregory Hunt, 65, has been on Alabama’s Death Row for almost 35 years. A jury in 1990 recommended 11 to 1 that he be sentenced to death for the brutal, and fatal, attack on Karen Sanders Lane. He’s set to die by inhaling pure nitrogen gas on June 10.

1 month ago | al.com | Ivana Hrynkiw

The Alabama parole board just released proposed new guidelines for who should get a second chance, making it harder for some people to be recommended for parole. The proposed guidelines are more strict in terms of how they rank an inmate for parole readiness, weighing the inmate’s original crime more heavily than the previous guidelines and putting more emphasis on behavior in prison. The parole board had long ignored its own guidelines.

2 months ago | al.com | Ivana Hrynkiw

This post will be updated as the day unfolds. Live updates will be added at the top of this story. Alabama is set to execute a man Thursday evening after he volunteered to die for his crimes. James Osgood is set to be executed at 6 p.m. at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, just miles from the Florida state line. He will be put to death using the state’s three-drug lethal injection method, after he declined to choose death by nitrogen gas when Alabama allowed that swap in 2018.

2 months ago | al.com | Ivana Hrynkiw

In a handwritten letter, Robin Alford begged for help. Her son, Clinton Willard Bridges, died last year at one of Alabama’s maximum-security prisons. “When my son died so sudden, a part of me died with him. I will never be ok,” she wrote. Bridges was locked up at St. Clair Correctional Facility for property crimes, his mother said. They talked regularly during his 14 years in prison, but in early September, the calls stopped coming in. And they didn’t start again.