It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature could soon make first-degree rape and sodomy of a child under 12 punishable by death.

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 ...

HB49, sponsored by Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, stated that a person age 18 or older could face death or life imprisonment if ...

Recently, Frazier’s mother and death penalty opponents had pleaded to Whitmer to take Frazier back to his home state of ...

Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The ...

The states of Alabama and Texas carried out one execution each last week, bringing the number of executions in 2025 to three. Five more executions are scheduled between now and March 20—two in ...