A judge sentenced Michael Roman Black, 32, to 35 years in prison for planning the shooting of a federal prosecutor.

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

In its report, the ACLU of Alabama also found that 72% of people who died by homicide in 2024 were Black. Thirty-eight staff ...

Another former Walker County correctional officerTrina Lou Blackmon Phillips has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of ...

Scheduling a flurry of lethal injections using pentobarbital is the wrong decision for Tennessee. It has already led to a ...

On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...