A bill introduced this week by Alabama Representative Chris England proposes asking Alabama voters if they want to end the ...

These legal efforts are common in cases involving the death penalty or life in prison, as Petersen and the other inmates have ...

A bill was recently prefiled in the Alabama Legislature that, if passed, would give the public a chance to abolish the death ...

The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be ...

Alabama told a federal judge that it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. The disclosure came Monday at a court hearing ...

Federal judges say an Alabama man is intellectually disabled and can't be put to death. Alabama wants the Supreme Court to ...

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital ...

The U.S. has seen 35 executions this year, already surpassing the number of executions carried out last year and could be the ...