A federal district court Friday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to delay his scheduled June 11 execution, saying ...

The execution of an Alabama inmate set to die next week by breathing in nitrogen gas is constitutional and can go forward, a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Muslim inmate scheduled to be executed next week in Alabama said the state is violating his rights by requiring a Christian prison chaplain to stand near him as he is put to death ...

A federal judge has ruled that execution by nitrogen gas doesn't violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions vacating the death sentence of Joseph Clifton Smith, ruling that Alabama ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday set a June ...

Alabama Execution Remains on Hold to Evaluate Whether Man Is Competent MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton to life without parole, just days before his scheduled execution. Burton was convicted under Alabama’s ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday set a June ...