Grayson, 49, is set to die Nov. 21, within a 30-hour timeframe. He was convicted with three other men for the brutal Feb. 22, ...

A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week. The 11th U.S.

Attorneys for Alabama death row inmate Toforest Johnson filed a petition in Jefferson County Circuit Court Thursday seeking a ...

Alabama began using nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates earlier this year. The process involves placing a respirator gas mask over the inmate’s face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen ...

Whether Creech dies of natural causes or lethal injection matters in this one respect: By executing someone for the first ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

In Alabama, there were 359 reported lynchings between 1877 and 1943, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit. In Colbert County alone, there were 11.

No. 11 Alabama traveled to No. 13 LSU and silenced Death Valley with a 42-13 win on Saturday. Follow for a recap of scores, ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

A judge on Wednesday refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is planned in Alabama for later this month. U.S. District Judge R.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday a judicial decision that had spared a man convicted of murder in Alabama from ...