Alabama death penalty advocates are urging Governor Kay Ivey to halt the execution of 75-year-old Charles "Sonny" Burton, a ...

The Alabama Legislature begins its annual session Tuesday and will be ready to vote on bills as early as Thursday. A bill to ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WKRG) — A man convicted in a 1997 murder and sentenced to death now has a scheduled execution, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. An ADOC news release said the Alabama ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution. There was no ...

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital ...