Alabama scheduled to execute death row inmate for 1991 murder of couple

By: Ralph Chapoco

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: November 5, 2026

Words: 400

Last Updated: 4 days, 12 hours ago


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Alabama is scheduled to execute a death row inmate Thursday for his role in the murders of a couple in Gadsden in 1991.

Michael Shannon Taylor, 54, is set to be put to death by lethal injection for the deaths of Ivan and Lucille Moore during a robbery.

Taylor would be the third person executed in Alabama this year. Jeremy Tremaine Williams was put to death in August. Jeffery Lee was executed in …