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

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines on when ...

The Alabama man accused of killing 18 people in 2023 and 2024, including two mass shootings, will go to trial in April next year, a judge ruled Tuesday.

On Thursday, Arkeem Marshall, 33, was convicted of capital murder for the September 2023 shooting death of TiMira Pullom, 28.

The State of Alabama will not seek the death penalty for Michael Lynn Davis in the capital murder case of Jamea Harris. Court documents released on April 21, 2025, stated that "the range of ...

If prosecutors decide against seeking the death penalty in these cases, ... Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office to "restore" the fed­er­al death penal­ty.

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The ...

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.

Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, and other death penalty opponents hold a demonstration outside the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Kim ...