‘Morally right thing’: Former Alabama governors urge their state to stop executing people

Former Republican Gov. Robert Bentley and Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman came together to pen a warning in the Washington Post last week imploring change over the death penalty. With 167, the state has more people on death row than any other per capita. They called it “146 people too many.” “As former Alabama governors, we have come over time to see the flaws in our nation’s justice system and to view the state’s death penalty laws in particular as legally and morally troubling,” the governors wrote. “We both presided over executions while in office, but if we had known then what we know now ab…

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