Alabama death penalty advocates are urging Governor Kay Ivey to halt the execution of 75-year-old Charles "Sonny" Burton, a ...

The Alabama Legislature begins its annual session Tuesday and will be ready to vote on bills as early as Thursday. A bill to ...

New data from a national watchdog group shows juries nationwide are sentencing fewer people to death, but executions are rising. According to the newly released 2025 report from the Death Penalty ...

ATMORE, Ala.(AP) — An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at ...

The death penalty could be on the table for those in Alabama who are found guilty of using a weapon to murder someone in ...

An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday.Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at William C. Holman ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate ...

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...