I guess my question about taking on additional debt is, what are the plans to repay it?” said Sen. Larry Stutts.

A bill to expand the state’s definition of sexual extortion to include threats of what is often referred to as “revenge porn, ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 ...

R. Kelly’s racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence, were upheld Wednesday by a ...

The pulverized face of Steven Davis tells a terrifying story of conditions inside Alabama state prisons – his eyes swollen shut, his bruised flesh a deep purple. “They beat him so badly his ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first execution in ...