{"id":353,"date":"2018-02-22T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/update-hamm-v-alabama\/?p=353"},"modified":"2018-02-22T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:54:33","slug":"most-distinguished-jurists-in-alabama-call-on-governor-ivey-to-halt-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/update-hamm-v-alabama\/2018\/02\/22\/most-distinguished-jurists-in-alabama-call-on-governor-ivey-to-halt-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Distinguished Jurists in Alabama Call on Governor Ivey to Halt Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 21, 2018, a most distinguished group of Alabama jurists wrote to Governor Kay Ivey to call for mercy in Doyle Hamm&#8217;s case. The group included\u00a0former judges of\u00a0Alabama&#8217;s Supreme Court and appellate court, and former Presidents of the Alabama State Bar Association. The\u00a0group included former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Ernest &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Hornsby, and former\u00a0Court of Criminal Appeals Judge William Bowen, as well as Bobby Segall and William Clark,\u00a0both of whom served as State Bar Presidents. Based on their long experience in the\u00a0administration of criminal justice and the death penalty in Alabama, they urged Governor Ivey to stop the\u00a0execution of Doyle Lee Hamm. 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