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

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Alabama is preparing to execute a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Hunt was convicted ...

Gregory Hunt was convicted of killing Karen Lane, a woman he had been dating for about a month, according to court records.

A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago was executed Tuesday in Alabama in what was the nation's ...

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.

Alabama executed a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman Tuesday evening.Gregory Hunt was scheduled to ...

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

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas.