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 ...

The Alabama attorney general’s office, in asking justices to reject Hunt’s request for a stay of execution, wrote that Hunt has now been on death row longer than Lane was alive.

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama's death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.

Earlier in the day Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin D. “Rocky” Myers, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1991 capital murder in north Alabama of Ms. Ludie Mae Tucker.

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in Alabama this week, but questions remain over whether it is constitutional.

He was transferred to Alabama under an arrangement made in 2011 to move him to death row for Brown’s murder. Frazier chose Taco Bell burritos and Mountain Dew as his last meal.

Frazier delivered the letter to Gov. Whitmer Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 asking her to step in and bring her son, who is on death row in Alabama, back to Michigan. (James Prince/WWMT) ...