A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a witness to 11 executions, plans to travel to Parchman to pray outside if Richard Jordan’s is executed ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of ...

Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. on Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Strapped to a gurney, Hunt gave no final ...

The Alabama execution is one of four that had been scheduled ... The element of sexual abuse is what elevated the crime to a death penalty offense. In a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, Hunt, acting ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines on when ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.