Former Alabama governor opposes nitrogen execution

In anticipation of the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas, a former Alabama governor said that if it was in his power, he would go back and commute the sentences of everyone on death row during his term.

“If I had known then what I know now about the breadth of prosecutorial misconduct, I would have commuted the sentences of everyone on death row to life in prison without parole,” Democratic former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman said Thursday on “NewsNation Now.”

He called out one case in particular – that of 49-year-old Freddie Lee Wright, who was executed by electric chair in 2000.

Wright, a Black man, was sentenced to death for murder in the 1977 deaths of two white victims, Warran and Lois Green, according to Amnesty International.