The state of Alabama Thursday plans to execute a death row inmate amid clemency efforts by death penalty opponents, who cite ...

Gov. Kay Ivey made sure Alabama abandoned the process — called judicial override — by signing a law on her first day in ...

An Alabama man on death row was executed via lethal injection, three months after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the state ...

Alabama ended judicial override in 2017. However, the ACLU says the change did not apply retroactively to people who were ...

Alabama has executed Jeffery Lee, nearly three decades after he was convicted in the 1998 killings of two people.

Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeffrey Lee, 49, on Thursday, after the Supreme Court disallowed the use of nitrogen gas in ...

Texas and Georgia are each planning to execute inmates within an hour of each other on Wednesday. Alabama is set to carry out ...

Jeffery Lee’s case has grappled with questions in Alabama about emerging execution methods and an abandoned sentencing ...

A North Little Rock anti-death penalty activist is donating a collection of writings, papers and other items related to executions around the country to the University of North Alabama.

This is an opinion column. The 25 may soon be 24. The 25 who sit on death row, despite juries of their peers ruling that they should live. Juries that voted they should spend the rest of their days ...

For a decade, Alabama death row inmate Jeffrey Lee has been clear that he does not want to be executed by lethal injection. But that is what awaits him on September 17. He faces that prospect because ...