Sister Calls for Alabama Authorities to Investigate Themselves after Their Botched Murder of Joe James. DOC Probots Don’t Know Whether Black Man was Fully Conscious During "Execution"

From [HERE] The sister of Black death-row prisoner Joe Nathan James Jr. has called for an investigation into his botched execution following a statement by an Alabama Department of Correction’s spokesperson that ADOC could not confirm that James was fully conscious when he was executed. 

James was executed on July 28, 2022 following an initially unexplained three-hour delay during which ADOC execution personnel repeatedly failed to establish an intravenous line for the lethal injection. When reporters were finally admitted to the observation room and ADOC officials opened the curtain to the execution chamber, James was motionless and non-responsive on the gurney with his eyes shut. James did not respond in any way when an execution team member asked him whether he had any last statement.

“James’ eyes were not open at the beginning of the execution, and he appeared motionless, save for his breathing,” Lee Hedgepeth, a media witness from Birmingham television station CBS42 wrote.

In a written statement to the Montgomery Advertiser, James’ sister, Yvette Craig said “Only the ADOC employees know what occurred during those three hours” in which the execution was delayed. “At the very least,” she wrote, ADOC Commissioner John Hamm “should have let the execution warrant expire and revisit the method of execution.” The media’s observations of James’ condition when the curtain was opened “warrants an investigation of Commissioner John Hamm, Governor Kay Ivey, and Attorney General Steve Marshall’s actions leading up to the execution of my brother,” she said.