A bill introduced this week by Alabama Representative Chris England proposes asking Alabama voters if they want to end the ...

A bill was recently prefiled in the Alabama Legislature that, if passed, would give the public a chance to abolish the death ...

I’m arguing specifically for German businesses to boycott Alabama because of its barbaric, gruesome-and-gasping nitrogen-gassing executions.

The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

Attorneys for Loretta Kay Carr, facing capital murder charges in Alabama, seek to block the death penalty, citing ...

These legal efforts are common in cases involving the death penalty or life in prison, as Petersen and the other inmates have ...

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Anthony ...

A horrific sex-abuse case ... An Alabama judge sentenced a convicted child abuser to 965 years in prison, reports AL.com’s Carol Robinson. Those 965 years are to be served consecutively. This case ...

FILE - This undated photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Geoffrey West. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File) FILE - This undated photo from the Alabama Department of ...

The U.S. has seen 35 executions this year, already surpassing the number of executions carried out last year and could be the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Will Berry was 11 when his mother was killed. Thirty-three-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry was shot in the back of the head during a robbery at the gas station where she worked.