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

A federal appeals court Monday rejected the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed on Thursday. The ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

Across the nation, more than half of the approximately 2,100 prisoners with death sentences are incarcerated in jurisdictions where executions are on hold, according to a Washington Post analysis.

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

Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals ...

Alabama football returned home in Week 9 with perhaps one goal in mind: Get back in the win column. With the win, Alabama not only picked up its second shutout win of the season but, more ...