Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas are asking a federal judge to block the upcoming execution.

If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took ...

late-in-the-day commutations haven’t and won’t “incentivize” people in states like Alabama, Texas, Florida, or any of the other pro-death penalty outliers, to end the death penalty where ...

Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole ...

Alabama is set to execute its first inmate of 2025 in February, following a record-setting year of executions.

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

D.A. Mike Segrest sought death for Derrick Hightower. The last death sentence handed down in the circuit was by his father, ...

A nonprofit that focuses on social justice issues plans to prioritize poverty, health care and changes to the criminal ...

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara ...

Five shooting suspects could face the death penalty in Alabama. Several suspects, including ones connected to mass shootings, ...

Congo on Thursday banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that ...