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Oct 20, 2026

Alabama governor commutes death sentence citing doubts about evidence

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Toforest Johnson to life in prison without parole after former public officials and the current district attorney raised doubts about his conviction.

Oct 20, 2026·3 sources
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  • ▪Governor Kay Ivey has overseen 27 executions and commuted three death sentences since becoming governor of Alabama in 2017
  • ▪Toforest Johnson was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for the July 1995 killing of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama
  • ▪Key prosecution witness Violet Ellison testified at Toforest Johnson's 1998 trial that she overheard a man she believed was Johnson admit to the crime on a three-way phone call

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