CONTACTStaffCAREER OPPORTUNITIESADVERTISE WITH USPRIVACY POLICYPRIVACY PREFERENCESTERMS OF USELEGAL NOTICE
© 2024 Pride Publishing Inc.
All Rights reserved
All Rights reserved
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
The Alabama supreme court set an execution date Monday for a death row inmate whose previous execution date was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court. Gary Leon Brown, convicted in Jefferson County, Ala., in the 1986 stabbing death of a 60-year-old gay man who was nearly decapitated during a robbery, has now been scheduled for execution on April 24. He was originally slated to die in the electric chair on April 5, 2002. But the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his execution based on his appeal, which in part contended that the electric chair is cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama has since switched its primary method of execution to lethal injection. Two other men were also convicted in the brutal murder of Jack David McGraw of Center Point, who was stabbed 78 times and his throat slashed repeatedly and nearly cut through. James Lynn Bynum of Trussville, who was 21 at the time of the murder, was paroled in 1997 from a life sentence. Archie Bankhead of Birmingham, 36 at the time of the murder, is serving a life sentence without parole.
Want more breaking equality news & trending entertainment stories?
Check out our NEW 24/7 streaming service: the Advocate Channel!
Download the Advocate Channel App for your mobile phone and your favorite streaming device!
From our Sponsors
Most Popular
Meet all 37 of the queer women in this season's WNBA
April 17 2024 11:24 AM
Here are the 15 gayest travel destinations in the world: report
March 26 2024 9:23 AM
21+ steamy photos of Scotland’s finest gay men in Elska Glasgow
February 01 2024 10:07 PM
More Than 50 of Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Moms
May 12 2024 11:44 AM
Conjoined twins Lori Schappell and trans man George Schappell dead at 62
April 27 2024 6:13 PM
Latest Stories
Joe Biden sends queer lawmakers & LGBTQ+ allies to Paris Olympics
July 24 2024 12:08 PM
Kamala Harris rides wave of Democratic energy at kickoff event in Wisconsin
July 23 2024 3:36 PM
'Devastated:' A six-week abortion ban will go into effect in Iowa next week
July 23 2024 2:28 PM
Four hours, 44,000 Black women, and one Zoom call
July 23 2024 2:17 PM
Record 1.2 million people show out for Cologne’s Pride parade
July 23 2024 10:51 AM
Here's how far-right activist Leonard Leo helped fund Bud Light boycott
July 23 2024 10:27 AM