Holman PrisonDon Fletcher

Selma killer’s execution set for Thursday
Reeves Despite a judicial order issued nearly three weeks ago that blocked it, Alabama Department of Corrections officials said this week the execution of Matthew Reeves will proceed as scheduled this Thursday, January 27, barring any last-minute notifications. Reeves was sentenced to die for the 1996 robbery-murder of 38-year-old Willie Johnson Jr. of Selma,  who came to Reeves’s aid when Reeves had car trouble. He is set to die by…
Fatal stabbing at Holman
Special to Atmore News The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating a fatal stabbing that happened at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on Sunday. At approximately 6:15 p.m., prison officials found Vaquerro Kinjuan Armstrong, 29, in a housing area with multiple stab wounds received in an altercation with another inmate. Armstrong was taken to the facility’s infirmary for emergency treatment but died from his injuries at around…
Convict scheduled for execution Feb. 22
Alabama Department of Corrections officials announced this week that death row inmate Doyle Lee Hamm has been scheduled for execution at 6 p.m. next Thursday, Feb. 22, at William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore. The Alabama Supreme Court ordered this week that the execution be carried out. Hamm, 60, was convicted in 1987 of murdering a Cullman hotel clerk during a robbery that — according to court documents —…