The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery Police ...

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

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Governor Kay Ivey announced Thursday that the execution of David Lee Roberts has been scheduled.Ivey said a 30-hour time ...

But she feared if the case ended in mistrial, another jury would sentence Myers to death. So, Puckett said she agreed to a compromise — find him guilty but recommend life in prison. Jurors voted ...

Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole expands the limits of victimhood.. To Mr. Lyman, by using nitrogen ...

A bill pre-filed for the 2025 Alabama Legislative session would make certain Rape 1st degree and Sodomy 1st degree convictions eligible for the death penalty. The bill, filed by Rep. Matt Simpson ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in Alabama this week, but questions remain over whether it is constitutional.

A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines on when ...