Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man who dropped his appeals and said he deserved to die for a 2010 rape and murder was executed Thursday evening, using his final words to apologize to the woman he killed.

Looking back now on her experience with the 2016 Holman riot, “I wish I could change it,” says Cecil, “because it’s really what’s still keeping me in prison. What I done to come to ...

A waiting room at Cummins prison includes a phone used to notify people when an execution has been completed. Credit: Brian Chilson Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, is a place of nightmares even ...

ATMORE ‒ Casey A. McWhorter spent most of his adult life on Alabama’s death row. Thursday night he died there. The state of Alabama executed McWhorter, 49, by lethal injection in the death ...

ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday ...

Alabama put to death inmate Carey Dale Grayson for the 1994 murder of a hitchhiker, the third execution using nitrogen gas in the US. Grayson, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. on Thursday at ...

Atmore, Ala. – An Alabama inmate convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday ...