The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

The state of Alabama executed convicted murderer and rapist Demetrius Frazier on Thursday night after a legal appeal to ...

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill, sponsored by Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne). It would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for defendants charged with rape or sodomy ...

"I understand the pleas and concerns. Michigan is not a death penalty state." Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a post-execution statement that justice was done. "In Alabama, we enforce the law.

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

An Alabama prison executed a Detroit man Thursday evening after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declined to intervene, ignoring pleas from his family, attorneys, and death penalty opponents who argued she ...