Alabama Man Executed After 26 Years On Death Row
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}James Harvey Callahan has been executed for the 1982 kidnapping, rape and murder of a Jacksonville woman.
The 62-year-old Callahan died at 6:24 p.m. Thursday by lethal injection at Holman Prison for the murder of Rebecca Suzanne Howell, a 26-year-old Jacksonville State University student.
Callahan had been on death row for nearly 26 years.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He was the first of five inmates set for execution in the first five months of this year. Alabama had no executions in 2008.