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Alabama toddler dies in hot car while in state custody (www.cnn.com)

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The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”

The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency, according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the death.

K.J. had been left inside a car parked outside a home in Birmingham for several hours during the middle of the day on Tuesday, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to be hanged for this

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://www.findlaw.com/state/alabama-law/alabama-capital-punishment-laws.html

Methods of Execution Allowed in Alabama

Lethal injection is the primary method of execution allowed in Alabama. Also, the state allows the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative method.

Looks like you're out of luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_in_the_United_States

The hanging of Billy Bailey is likely to be the final hanging in the United States, considering that all three of the states that maintained hanging as a secondary method of execution alongside lethal injection after the 1976 restoration of the death penalty have now abolished executions. Delaware's Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be in violation of their state constitution in 2016,[20] Washington abolished executions in 2018,[21] and New Hampshire abolished executions in 2019.[22] However, the last person on death row in the three states is Michael K. Addison in New Hampshire, convicted in 2008 of the 2006 murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer. Should the state carry out Addison's execution, the method could be hanging if lethal injection was found unconstitutional or inefficient, or if he chooses to be executed by hanging.

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