The state of Alabama executed convicted murderer Andrew Reid Lackey who prisoner rights groups said was mentally ill, Reuters reported. The 29-year-old Lackey was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Prison in the Atmore, marking the state's first execution since 2011.
After seven days in a bunker, Alabama authorities have killed a gunman and abductor who was holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural Alabama on Monday.
A 65-year-old captor, who allegedly fatally shot a school bus driver on Tuesday, has kept a 5 year old boy captive in an underground bunker, on his property, as the dangerous hostage standoff entered its 4th day.
Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were camped out at a rural property where a suspect was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker Wednesday after fatally shooting a school bus driver. He had reportedly fled with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.
