Alabama in 2014 passed a constitutional amendment banning Sharia Law. Of course they did.

Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. The last execution was on July 28th, when Joe Nathan James Jr. was executed for the murder of Faith Hall. It was a lengthy affair:

Last Thursday night, the state of Alabama took three hours to find a vein in Joe Nathan James Jr through which officials could pump lethal injection drugs and execute him, a process that the department of corrections insisted was “nothing out of the ordinary”.

Thought it was not as bad as the botched execution of Doyle Hamm in February 2018:

In February 2018, Alabama carried out the botched attempted execution of Doyle Hamm. During the execution attempt, executioners attempted for nearly three hours to insert an IV that could be used to administer the lethal injection drugs. In the process, the execution team punctured Hamm's bladder and femoral artery, causing significant bleeding.

Apparently another ordinary procedure during executions in Alabama is to subject female journalist to clothing inspections:

Ivana Hrynkiw, a journalist for Alabama’s pre-eminent news outlet AL.com, recounted how she was pulled aside by a prison official and told that her skirt was too diminutive to meet regulations. “I tried to pull my skirt to my hips to make the skirt longer, but was told it was still not appropriate,”

Hrynkiw had to borrow a pair of waterproof fisher waders from a photographer, but that was still not enough, as she was told that her open toes heels were not allowed. She had to go back to her car an put on a pair of tennis shoes before she was admitted.

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Another female reporter, Kim Chandler of the associated press, was made to stand up in order to check the length of her clothing, and found to be compliant

Chandler said that such an indignity had never happened to her before in the many times she had covered executions since 2002