Alabama

As of 2025, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Wyoming were the U.S. states without a high school NIL framework in place.

In 2025, 44 people died by court-ordered execution in the United States, and Florida executed more people than any other state that year while Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas each carried out five executions.

As of 2025-11-20, Florida had carried out 17 executions in 2025, the most executions of any U.S. state in 2025; Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas had carried out five executions each in 2025.

As of November 20, 2025, Florida had executed more people in 2025 than any other U.S. state; Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas had each carried out five executions in 2025.

As of 2025-10-24, the nitrogen hypoxia method had been used in eight executions nationally: seven in Alabama and one in Louisiana.

As of 2025-10-23, nitrogen gas execution had been used seven times in the United States: six times in Alabama and once in Louisiana.

As of 2025, six U.S. states—Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Wyoming—have rules that prohibit high school athletes from accepting payments for their name, image, and likeness (NIL).

As of 2025-10-20, six U.S. states (Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Wyoming) had rules prohibiting high school athletes from accepting payments for their name, image, and likeness (NIL).

The 2025 report by Black Voters Matter Fund and Fair Fight Action estimated that Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas could end up with fewer Democratic U.S. House representatives if Section 2 protections were eliminated.

Publix operates supermarket stores in eight U.S. states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, with more than 1,421 total supermarket locations and over 900 locations in Florida.

Alabama, Georgia, and Kentucky have permitless carry laws that generally allow most adults who are legally permitted to possess a firearm to carry that firearm openly or concealed without obtaining a permit.

Alabama has historically had the highest rate of death sentences per capita among U.S. states and has had one of the highest execution rates in the United States.

Alabama began using nitrogen gas to carry out some executions in 2024 and conducted a first test of the method on a condemned inmate in January 2025.

In 2025, Florida carried out 15 executions, the most of any U.S. state in that year, while Texas and Alabama each carried out five executions in 2025.

A 2024 Stateline analysis of CDC data found that the suicide rate for U.S. adults aged 18-27 increased nearly 20% between 2014 and 2024, rising from 13.8 deaths per 100,000 people in 2014 to 16.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 2024.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service data covering the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 (Oct 1–Dec 31, 2024) showed more than 226,000 fraudulent SNAP benefit claims, more than 691,000 unauthorized SNAP transactions, and reported stolen benefit claim counts of over 26,000 for Alabama, 25,818 for California, and 25,210 for New York.

Alabama began using nitrogen gas as an execution method in 2024.

Alabama first tested nitrogen hypoxia (a nitrogen gas execution method) on a condemned inmate in January 2024.

In 2024, approximately 749,000 people were enrolled in SNAP in Alabama, and SNAP assistance reached about 15% of Alabama's population (roughly 1 in 7 people).

In 2023 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama must create a second majority-Black congressional district.

In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling finding a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in a case concerning Alabama's congressional map.

Tennessee's 7th Congressional District spans 14 counties, borders both Kentucky and Alabama, and includes parts of Nashville, rural areas, wealthy suburbs, and part of the Fort Campbell military installation.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in 2020 alleging that conditions in Alabama's prison system violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Aniah's Law is an Alabama law, passed in 2019, that allows judges and prosecutors to request and deny bail for certain violent offenses including kidnapping, murder, rape, and aggravated child abuse.

Aniah's Law was passed in Alabama in 2019.

Aniah's Law allows judges and prosecutors in Alabama to request and deny bail for offenses including kidnapping, murder, rape, and aggravated child abuse.

The U.S. states of Georgia and Alabama require a license or boater safety certification to operate motorized boats.

In Alabama, criminal charges that may be filed after fatal boating collisions include reckless manslaughter and first-degree assault, and boating-related misdemeanors can include reckless operation of a vessel, failing to follow boating rules, and operating without a boater safety certification.

Tennessee's 7th Congressional District is located in central and western Tennessee and extends from the Kentucky border to the Alabama border.

Aniah's Law gives judges authority to deny bail and to hold defendants in jail without bond when they are charged with certain serious crimes, including murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, and first-degree robbery.