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

Alabama conducted more executions in 2024 than any other U.S. state, a fact Attorney General Steve Marshall celebrated in a ...

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

Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole expands the limits of victimhood. To Mr. Lyman, by using nitrogen hypoxia to ...

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

Originally published toward the end of 2023, this piece by former CBS 42 digital content producer Emery Akin examined the lives of the five women currently on Alabama death row and remained one of ...

Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place ...