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Alabama Capital Punishment Laws
More Information on Capital Punishment Laws
| Code Section | 13A-5-39, et seq. |
| Is Capital Punishment Allowed? | Yes |
| Effect of Defendant's Incapacity | Mitigating circumstance if defendant under influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance; forbid execution of "insane" person |
| Minimum Age | No minimum age but age is a mitigating circumstance |
| Available for Crimes Other than Homicide? | None |
| Definition of Capital Homicide | Homicide during the commission of kidnapping; robbery; rape/sodomy; burglary; sexual abuse; arson; hijacking; murder of police officer or public official while on duty or when related to or caused by or is related to his official position, act, or capacity; murder for pecuniary or other valuable consideration; two or more persons murdered in same act/course of conduct; victim less than 14 years old; murder under life sentence; murder during arson or by means of explosives; murder by defendant who has previously been convicted of murder within 20 years; murder of witness in civil or criminal trial when murder is caused by or related to the testimony; murder during act of unlawfully assuming control of any aircraft; murder when deadly weapon is fired outside of a dwelling when victim is in dwelling; murder by deadly weapon used from or within a vehicle. |
| Method of Execution | Electrocution |
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