Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The legislation ...

I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

A decade after Connecticut emptied its death row, state lawmakers are again tinkering with the machinery of death, responding ...

Demetrius T. Frazier, convicted of murdering a Detroit teen in 1992, was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama after an unusual ...

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life ...

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

BUT OUR IMPACT WEATHER HERE IN CENTRAL ALABAMA HAPPENS EARLY FRIDAY MORNING ... Reed’s cellmate, Daniel Pollard, 24, has been charged with murder in Reed’s death. His attorney, Jennifer Tompkins, said ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The wife of a 72-year-old veteran who was beaten to death by a cellmate in an Alabama jail filed a civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against three ...