Right now, anyone convicted of raping or sodomizing a child 5 years old or younger in Alabama can be sentenced to life ...

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

Gov. Kay Ivey Tuesday called for expansions to a voucher-like school program and broader use of the death penalty in her ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has changed ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey's ...

Alabama is considering significant changes to its death penalty laws with the introduction of two new bills. HB70 seeks to allow certain death-row inmates, sent ...

ALABAMA (WHNT) — In what some might call a controversial move, one of the largest gas suppliers in Alabama said it will not supply nitrogen to prisons across the state for nitrogen hypoxia executions.

Facing the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, Alabama held firm that an inmate should be put to death despite multiple federal courts ruling he is intellectually disabled. During lengthy ...