An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

A Dothan man who police claim sodomized and killed his ex-girlfriend’s teen daughter could be put to death if he is found guilty during his eventual trial.

The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

ATMORE, Ala. — A man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took office.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of ...

Former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles will stand trial for capital murder the week of Dec. 1, a date set by ...

The 23-year-old is accused of “aiding and abetting” his co-defendant and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.