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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...
The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery ...
A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.
An Alabama man was executed Thursday for the 2004 murders of an elderly couple who were beaten to death and robbed of $140 and some medication.. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, died by lethal injection at 6: ...
He was later convicted of murdering a 14-year-old in Michigan, which agreed to transfer him to pro-death penalty Alabama in ...
The US Supreme Court has overruled a federal appeals court’s stay of execution for Alabama death-row prisoner Kenneth Smith, allowing the state to proceed with Smith’s execution before his ...
An Alabama death row inmate convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his girlfriend's cousin was executed by lethal injection Thursday night after Gov. Kay Ivey did not exercise clemency powers.
Alabama has 167 people on death row, a greater number per capita than in any other state. As far as the two of us are concerned, that is at least 146 people too many. Here’s why.
Carey Dale Grayson had been on death row for 28 years following the 1994 murder and mutilation of 37-year-old hitchhiker Vickie Lynn Deblieux who was traveling from Chatanooga, TN. to her mother's ...
An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures before being put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen ...
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 ...
LANSING, Mich. — The mother of a man from Michigan on death row in Alabama delivered a letter and petition signatures to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Tuesday asking her to intervene. Demetrius Frazier ...