One proposal would allow those sentenced to death before a 2017 law change to be resentenced. The other would put capital ...

Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa) said Alabamians should be the ones to decide whether to keep or get rid of the death ...

Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions in 2025.

There were only 22 new death sentences handed down this year nationally -- and only four in Alabama -- as fewer than half of ...

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

An Alabama Reflector analysis of executions in the state over the past decade shows five of the state’s 67 counties account for almost half of the total number of death sentences imposed since 2012.

But just as anti-death penalty Germans should be discussing and implementing ways to regulate, reduce, maybe even completely ...

A DeKalb County judge will take up several issues in a January hearing regarding how the trial will be conducted for a woman accused of kidnapping and forcing a ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states to condemn those with borderline ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...