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

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 ...

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 ...

Attorneys for Loretta Kay Carr, facing capital murder charges in Alabama, seek to block the death penalty, citing ...

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

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Anthony ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Will Berry was 11 when his mother was killed. Thirty-three-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry was shot in the back of the head during a robbery at the gas station where she worked.