Governor Kay Ivey announced that she would not exercise her clemency powers in the case of James Osgood, directing Corrections Commissioner John Hamm to proceed

An Alabama man who dropped his appeals and said he deserved to die for a 2010 rape and murder was executed Thursday evening, using his final words to apologize to the woman he killed. James Osgood, 55,

Osgood was executed at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, just miles from the Florida state line. He was 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.