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On November 28, 2021, Doyle Lee Hamm died of lymphoma on Alabama’s Death Row at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama.
On Friday, December 3, 2021, Doyle Lee Hamm was laid to rest beside his mother and father, Eula Mae Howell and Major Edward Hamm, his six older brothers, James, Ted, O’Neal, Horace, Jimmy, and David, his two sisters, Ruthie and Linda, his grandparents, and extended family, at the cemetery in Barton, Alabama, in the beautiful northwestern part of the state, near Muscle Shoals and the Tennessee Valley.
At his burial beside his grave, Doyle was remembered by his younger brother Danny, his grandniece Dwan, and the many men and women who loved and supported him during his more than three decades on Alabama’s death row, especially the men from the Kairos prison ministry who visited Doyle monthly on death row since the early 1990s, two of whom waited for him at the gallows on the night of February 22, 2018.
It was a peaceful and restful moment that remembered Doyle’s spirit, mercy, and friendship, which touched so deeply so many people, especially his friends on death row, those still alive today and the many who were executed by the state of Alabama over the past decades.
Farewell Doyle, you have been through countless ordeals, may you now rest in peace.
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For more information:
Roger Cohen, “Death Penalty Madness in Alabama,” New York Times, February 27, 2018. Mr. Cohen published his reflections on his reporting on Mr. Hamm’s case in “Some Reflections on Journalism.”
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An archive of all developments in his case can be found on the UPDATES page.
An archive of pleadings can be found on the PLEADINGS page.
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