A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff.

Because if Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle—the principle that killing people, even people ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

John Michael Legg was spared the possibility of a death penalty after he pleaded guilty Wednesday morning through an agreement with the district attorney to three counts of capital murder in the ...

Nine states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah—carried out executions this ...

On the front end of the Death Row pipeline, Alabama sentenced four people to death this year. Nationally, 26 people were placed on Death Row. Using nitrogen gas did create some controversy ...

The annual report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty found the state continues to execute and sentence to ...

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of ...