A man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery is set to be executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama this September. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has scheduled Geoffrey Todd West ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

Monday will be a busy day at the Madison County Courthouse as two people charged with capital murder in unrelated cases are ...

Alabama has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a ...

Rep. Matt Simpson's HB20 would add a 22nd factor to Alabama's capital murder law, targeting those who "knowingly create great risk of death" to multiple people.

The killings took place in Republican-controlled states, Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina, "as Donald Trump has pushed to revive the death penalty" despite the "growing concerns about ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of ...

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.