Kim Chandler
Kim Chandler covers the collision of law, politics and lived experience in Southern states, focusing on executions, voting rights battles and social policy fights that turn abstract court decisions into concrete consequences. Her work for the Associated Press centers on how state-level power - governors, legislatures, prison systems and election officials - uses legal tools to shape punishment, representation and public life. Over more than a decade on the Alabama political beat, she has built a file that moves between close-up reporting on individual cases and broader explanations of how they fit into national debates over democracy and justice.
Death Penalty and Execution Coverage
Chandler has an unusually deep body of reporting on the death penalty, documenting both routine executions and extraordinary failures in Alabama and Tennessee. She has co-written detailed accounts of Tennessee’s attempt to execute Christa Gail Pike, following the process minute by minute as injections were administered, Pike continued breathing and complained of pain, and officials eventually halted the procedure and moved her to a ventilator.
Her coverage extends through subsequent stories on Pike’s condition, the decision to stop executions and the broader questions raised about the state’s execution protocols.
In Alabama, Chandler reports on the state’s experiments with nitrogen gas, describing in granular detail how Alan Eugene Miller was put to death in the country’s second execution using the method and how the procedure unfolded inside the prison. She traces the legal and political backdrop, including previous failed attempts to execute Miller by lethal injection and protests outside the Capitol by death penalty opponents. Her archive also includes pieces on days when multiple states carried out executions, capturing both the logistical coordination and the public reaction to an unusually high number of deaths in a short span.
Across these stories she combines courtroom and policy context with on-the-ground accounts from witness areas, prison facilities and demonstrations.
Voting Rights, Redistricting and Representation
Chandler is a consistent presence on stories about voting rights and redistricting, especially the long-running fights over Alabama’s congressional maps and Black political representation.
She has reported on the redrawn district represented by Shomari Figures, explaining how Republicans reshaped the seat as part of a broader effort to protect their U.S. House majority and detailing Figures’ contest against a Trump-endorsed Republican challenger. Her coverage of that race emphasizes that the new district emerged from years of Voting Rights Act litigation and that the November matchup is a test of whether the revised map still allows a Democrat to win.
Chandler covers the legal front as well, writing on Supreme Court decisions that weaken or hollow out federal protections for minority voters. She has reported on rulings that undermined core parts of the Voting Rights Act and described them as the latest step in a six-decade legal framework being stripped back. In another piece, she contributed to coverage of a Supreme Court order allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that favors Republicans despite a lower court finding of intentional racial discrimination, underscoring the immediate electoral stakes of judicial decisions. Her reporting ties these developments to civil rights history through coverage of Bloody Sunday anniversaries in Selma, where she highlights both commemorations and present-day worries about the future of voting rights.
She also covers federal court rulings that block new Alabama congressional plans seen as benefiting Republicans, using specific lawsuits to show how map-drawing shapes who can realistically win office.
Southern Elections and National Politics
Beyond map-drawing, Chandler follows how parties and candidates try to navigate a changing political landscape in the South. She co-authored a story on Southern Democrats seeing new opportunity, describing tightly packed campaign events, Doug Jones’ bid for governor and efforts to build on voter discontent after previous disappointments.
In pieces on Republicans, she has covered how party strategists seek to capitalize on Supreme Court rulings weakening voting protections and how they move swiftly to redraw congressional districts and consolidate power.
Her work also connects state-level contests to national figures and dynamics.
Chandler has joined coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign activity in deeply Republican states, detailing rallies in Alabama and explaining why Trump focuses on such territory even while promising to help in competitive midterm races. In these stories she shows how national leaders use reliably conservative regions to energize their base, test messages and support down-ballot candidates, and how local actors respond. Her election reporting tends to balance scene-setting - crowded coffee shops, campaign stops, party meetings - with attention to the structural forces of redistricting, court decisions and demographic change.
Social Policy Battles and Civil Rights
Chandler frequently covers social policy fights where state boards and legislatures make decisions that touch on identity, family and civil rights. She has reported on an Alabama library board vote to remove books about being transgender from children’s and teen sections statewide, explaining the new rules that deem materials discussing gender diversity or “more than two biological genders” inappropriate for youth shelves and require them to be moved or removed. Her story situates the decision within a broader national struggle over library content, particularly titles with LGBTQ+ themes.
She has also contributed reporting and photography to coverage of turmoil around in vitro fertilization in Alabama, documenting how a state Supreme Court ruling describing frozen embryos as “extrauterine children” led major clinics to pause IVF services and threw patients’ plans into doubt. Her photos and reporting have captured protests over bills affecting transgender people and demonstrations at the Capitol, linking current legislative battles to the state’s civil rights legacy. Taken together, these pieces show a reporter attuned to how policy language adopted in boardrooms and courtrooms filters down into decisions about what families can do, what children can read and how marginalized communities experience state power.
Experience and Reporting Style
Before joining the Associated Press full time, Chandler spent years at other media outlets in Alabama, covering major stories from hurricanes on the Gulf Coast to the federal corruption case against former Governor Don Siegelman and ongoing problems in the state’s prisons.
That experience underpins her current work on law enforcement, education and legislative politics, giving her a long memory for how institutions respond under scrutiny and how past reforms have fared. Colleagues have described her as a tough, fair journalist with a track record in accountability reporting and an instinct for digging into complex stories.
In her Associated Press coverage, Chandler’s stories often pair precise chronological narratives - such as the timeline of an execution attempt or the sequence of court rulings reshaping a congressional district - with clear explanations of the legal mechanisms involved. She favors straightforward language, letting facts like vote counts, map boundaries, execution protocols and rule text speak for themselves while anchoring them in the experiences of people who live with the outcomes.
For politics and policy stories that touch on the courts, civil rights and punishment, her file offers a mix of breaking news, deep dives and anniversary pieces that reflect both immediacy and historical context.
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