The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

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 ...

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

And last year, Alabama led the country in executions with six. It’s the first time Alabama has executed more people than any other state. The Death Penalty Information Center, a national nonprofit who ...

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

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 ...

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