The Monday ruling from a three-judge panel means Michael Sockwell, 62, is eligible for a retrial. He was convicted of killing ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

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

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

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was ...

Alabama News New legislation takes aim at stopping gun violence, adding death penalty as option by: Debbie Williams Posted: Jun 12, 2025 / 06:22 PM CDT Updated: Jun 12, 2025 / 06:22 PM CDT ...

Alabama is one of 21 states that has the death penalty. “This is another tool in the toolbox for prosecutors and law enforcement to use to get dangerous people off the streets,” Simpson said.

2 death row inmates executed in Florida, Alabama minutes apart for grisly murders By David Propper Published June 10, 2025, 8:24 p.m. ET ...

A man killed by a controversial new execution method has some haunting final movements beforehand. The death row inmate at a south Alabama prison was pronounced dead at 6:26pm yesterday (10 June).