A Lee County man is facing four capital murder charges, including one under a relatively new Alabama law that makes it a ...

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the state’s death penalty law to cover more circumstances, including cases where a murder creates a significant risk of death to multiple people. Rep. Matt ...

Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

One Alabama lawmaker is trying to add more circumstances for the death penalty to be used ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Death penalty researchers say it is especially troubling given that the jury in Smith’s 1996 appeal voted 11-1 in favor of sentencing him to life without parole before a judge overrode the ...

Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, in an August 5, 1999 file photo. Miller was sentenced to death after being convicted of a 1999 ...

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

The death penalty in America—particularly in Alabama and other former confederate states—is a racial proposition driven by the need to control Black folks. A majority of death row prisoners ...

Alabama is the worst place to be executed. This state messes things up so bad, you’re either gonna die a horribly slow, accidentally painful death, like Joe Nathan James.

Alabama, the state that ... The Death Penalty Information Center reviewed more than 130 cases in which the death penalty was overturned because the defendant was intellectually disabled.