Survivor of botched execution in 2018, Doyle Lee Hamm succumbed to his lymphatic cancer and was buried at the Barton Cemetery in Cherokee, Alabama, on December 3, 2021. On a gorgeous Alabama fall afternoon, Friday, December 3, 2021, Doyle Lee Hamm was finally laid to rest. Doyle Hamm’s casket was […]
In what may be unprecedented, perhaps the first obituary of a man deceased on death row by a major national newspaper, the New York Times published a full obituary for Doyle Lee Hamm. Reporter Sam Roberts of the New York Times noted that “The cause was complications of the lymphoma and cranial cancer […]
On November 28, 2021, Doyle Lee Hamm passed away from lymphoma on Alabama’s Death Row after years of struggling against cancer. Doyle will be remembered for his generous and forgiving spirit and his ability to always stay positive even in the face of adversity. He will be missed by his […]
On March 26, 2018, Doyle Hamm and the State of Alabama entered into a confidential settlement agreement and jointly dismissed the federal and state litigation, preventing any further execution attempts. The joint voluntary stipulations were filed on March 26, 2018 with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of […]
Along with his second amended complaint and a Rule 32 state post-conviction petition in circuit court in Cullman County, Doyle Hamm filed today a federal habeas corpus petition challenging any second execution, by any means, as a violation of double jeopardy and the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Counsel […]
In light of the botched execution on February 22, 2018, counsel for Doyle Hamm has amended the §1983 complaint to raise new claims about the unconstitutionality of any other attempted execution, under double jeopardy principles, but also to raise a compelling question under the Baze/Glossip standard: even if there exists no […]
On March 5, 2018, counsel submitted Dr. Mark Heath’s report from his medical examination of Doyle Hamm right after the execution. The accounting is harrowing: Lower extremity puncture wounds (photo 1): 2 Left medial malleolus (photo 2) 2 Right leg, medial aspect, upper calf (photo 3) 1 Right medial malleolus […]
The Intercept has just published an extraordinary account of the last minutes of Doyle Hamm’s life, before he collapsed off the execution gurney and lived. It was almost 11:30 p.m. when word finally came from inside: the execution had been stopped. Danny Hamm and Bernard Harcourt broke down — “grown […]
Powerful piece in The Nation today on the “cruel and unusual punishment of Doyle Lee Hamm,” with a brilliant closing paragraph: “Without any practical justification for carrying on this tradition, law-and-order prosecutors and legislators have argued that the death penalty functions as symbolic justice, the only fit way for the state […]
Roger Cohen has a brilliant essay on Doyle and what he went through last week in the New York Times today. It is really worth reading and sharing. Please share widely! Here is the link: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/opinion/death-penalty-alabama-doyle-lee-hamm.html
