Yellow Mama - Wikipedia
WEBYellow Mama is the electric chair of the United States state of Alabama. It was used for executions from 1927 to 2002.
10 things to know about Alabama's electric chair, Yellow Mama
WEBJan 21, 2016 — The measure, introduced after lethal injections became difficult to obtain, failed but Yellow Mama, as the chair is known, still awaits its fate in a storage room in Holman Correctional...
'Crime does not pay': The final words, meals of Alabama's …
WEBJan 22, 2015 — The first woman to die in Alabama's electric chair, Silena Gilmore, said she shot a waiter as he begged for mercy because she was drunk. "Crime does not pay," she said before her 1930...
The last person electrocuted by Alabama's Yellow Mama: …
WEBMar 13, 2015 — The Alabama House has approved bringing back the electric chair if ongoing disputes over drugs used in lethal injections make that method of execution impossible.
Yellow Mama claims her first victim in AL - Appalachian History
WEBApr 10, 2019 — Alabamians referred to their electric chair as Yellow Mama; the chair acquired its yellow color from a contribution of highway line paint from the adjacent State Highway Department lab. It was built by a British inmate in 1927.
Kilby Correctional Facility - Wikipedia
WEBKilby prison was the site where Alabama executed prisoners who had been sentenced to death, and when in the 1920s the method was changed from hanging to electrocution, an electric chair, " (Big) Yellow Mama", was constructed in Kilby.
Execution questions evoke Evans’ death - The Tuscaloosa News
WEBJan 12, 2008 — That set the stage for a date for Evans in Alabama’s “Big Yellow Mama” — the electric chair at Atmore’s Holman Prison, nicknamed for its garish paint job.
Doyle Hamm, Who Survived a Bungled Execution, Dies in Prison …
WEBNov 29, 2021 — Hamm had been sentenced to death by electrocution, but Alabama’s electric chair, nicknamed Yellow Mama because of its color, was mothballed when the state conducted its first execution by lethal...
Alabama’s Capital Punishment Milestone: 75 Years with Yellow Mama
WEBJan 29, 2024 — For three-quarters of a century, the state of Alabama bore witness to capital punishment executed through an imposing wooden apparatus known as “Yellow Mama.” From 1927 to 2002, this bright yellow electric chair carried out 176 executions, etching a somber history into the annals of Alabama’s penitentiary system. Evolution of Execution ...
Yellow Mama: 75 Years of Capital Punishment in Alabama
WEBFrom 1927 to 2002, executions took place in Alabama’s one and only electric chair, painted bright yellow. This is the history of that chair, nicknamed “Yellow Mama.” Public hangings were common in Alabama during the frontier days and most of the 1800s.
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