Alabama ACLU

A Montgomery nonprofit is set to unveil a new mural in the city on Sunday related to Civil and Voter rights events. The ACLU of Alabama will also hold a voter engagement rally as part of its campaign to get more Alabamians registered to cast a ballot.

It's been one week since Alabama used nitrogen gas to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings in 1999. It was the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country. Now, a Montgonery nonprofit will hold a panel discussion about the impact of the death penalty in Alabama.

A federal court is ruling that the State of Alabama cannot restrict assistance for disabled, blind and low-literacy voters in 2024 election when it comes to the absentee application process. A U.S. District on Tuesday blocked a portion of a new Alabama law violates the Voting Rights Act.

As the 2024 Presidential Election draws near, Alabama still has one of the lowest voter turnout percentages in the nation. The ACLU of Alabama is working to increase voter participation in Alabama with Project MOVE (Making Our Voices Echo).

Hundreds of local drivers who paid fines from speeding cameras installed by a multibillion dollar company will get full refunds, the Mayor of Tuskegee confirmed.

Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun was also a key interview in Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning investigation of rural health in the State, which focused in part on the twentieth anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s apology for the study.

The ACLU of Alabama is announcing a new multi-year strategy to increase voter turnout across the state. Project MOVE (Making Our Voices Echo) aims to make civic engagement more accessible for more Alabamians.

An Alabama inmate will not ask the courts to block his execution next week but is requesting that the state not perform an autopsy on his body because of his Muslim faith, according to a lawsuit.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which sued Alabama over prison conditions, filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit by prisoners who said they are subjected to unconstitutional levels of violence and excessive force.

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. In Alabama alone, at least three men have died since 2015.