To be Clear Racist Suspect Alabama AG States: ​“There's No Moratorium on Capital Punishment [means Murders of Mostly Black Inmates by Authorities-Death Row is 50% Black, although AL is Only 18% Black]

From [HERE] During a December 5, 2022 press conference, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (pictured) discussed the state’s review of its lethal injection process, rejecting the media’s characterization of it as a “moratorium” on executions and urging that the review be carried out quickly. Governor Kay Ivey announced a “top-to-bottom review” of the state’s execution protocol on November 21, 2022, after two executions in a two-month period had to be called off when executioner were unable to set intravenous lines. 

“I stand before you today to be very clear that, so far as I and my office are concerned, there is no moratorium nor will there be on capital punishment in Alabama,” Marshall said. He called for a swift review, saying, “there is a timeliness for this to occur.” “In the last few weeks, I’ve seen some pronouncements that somehow or another we have a so-called moratorium on executions in Alabama,” Marshall said. “And I will tell you that that characterization came as a great surprise to me. Because there’s only two parties involved in setting an execution in Alabama. That’s me as attorney general and our Alabama Supreme Court.” 

Ivey’s November 21 press release did not use the term “moratorium,” but explicitly requested “that the attorney general not seek additional execution dates for any other death row inmates until the top-to-bottom review is complete.” Later that day, Marshall withdrew two pending motions, which had sought to set an execution date for James Barber and a new execution date for Alan Miller, whose initial September execution was aborted. On November 30, the state agreed not to make further attempts to execute Miller by lethal injection, but may still seek to execute him by nitrogen hypoxia.

Marshall did not directly respond to questions about whether he would refrain from seeking additional execution dates while the investigation was under way. “What you simply heard was the governor ask for a delay to be able to investigate what could be done better within the execution protocol. And so we look forward to having any conversation with her about that,” he said.