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

Attorneys for the family of an Alabama teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer last month say an independent ...

An investigation is underway after four people were found shot to death at a Talladega home. Talladega police were dispatched ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WSFA) - Thursday marks five years since the passing of Alabama native and former U.S. Rep. John Lewis. Lewis was born the son of sharecroppers in Pike County in 1940.

An Alabama man was executed Thursday for the 2004 murders of an elderly couple who were beaten to death and robbed of $140 and some medication.. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, died by lethal injection at 6: ...

The center says Alabama has carried out 70 executions since 1976, and there are currently 170 inmates on death row in the state. More from CBS News Florida puts man to death as U.S. executions ...

A leader at the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty group with a large database on executions, said no state other than Alabama has had to halt an execution in progress since ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death in 1990 by rejecting black people from the jury.

An Alabama death row inmate has asked a federal appeals court to stop his execution scheduled for this week, arguing the state hasn’t made sufficient changes to its capital punishment system ...

Alabama offered death-row inmates an untested method of execution — and then went back to the even worse option By Austin Sarat Published September 20, 2022 5:45AM (EDT) ...

Alabama fields heavy criticism for nitrogen gas execution 01:56. A man on Alabama's death row wants his execution to go forward Thursday, saying he believes in an "eye for an eye." ...