Alabama lawmaker will try again for statewide vote to end the death penalty

Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, is sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Alabama voters to decide ...

State legislator seeks to end the death penalty in Alabama with new bill

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

Inmate asks to meet with Alabama governor hours ahead of nitrogen execution for 1993 murder

An Alabama death row inmate set to die Thursday asked the state's governor to meet with him "before an innocent man is executed." Boyd, who has maintained he did not commit the crime, made the ...

Alabama constitutional amendment proposed to abolish death penalty

A bill introduced this week by Alabama Representative Chris England proposes asking Alabama voters if they want to end the ...
NBC Bay Area

Alabama murderer gives up appeals and asks to be executed so that victims' families have ‘justice'

A convicted killer on death row in Alabama told NBC News he no longer wants to delay justice for the families of the five people he murdered eight years ago and is ready to pay the ultimate ...

Death row executions are up to 44 this year — the highest in over a decade

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.