Alabama Attorney General

A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to let Carey Dale Grayson's execution proceed Thursday night. Alabama began using nitrogen gas to execute people on death row earlier this year.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is joining a comment letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency to deny California’s waiver request for its “Advanced Clean Fleets” regulation. The new rule attempts to impose an electric truck mandate on fleet owners, operators and manufacturers.

Alabama says a new state law expanding the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote won't be enforced until after the November election and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the effective date.

Fifteen states, including Alabama, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance.

Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

Federal authorities have arrested a man they said placed an explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general's office in February.

Investigators in Alabama have released a video recording showing a person of interest as they seek information about an explosion outside the state attorney general’s office.

Alabama's first-ever use of nitrogen gas for an execution could gain traction among other states and change how the death penalty is carried out in the United States, much like lethal injection did more than 40 years ago, according to experts on capital punishment. APR News raised this issue in its national coverage on NPR.

A federal judge declined to pause litigation challenging Alabama's ban on gender-affirming care for minors as similar cases wind upward toward the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke said no to a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to put the Alabama case on hold.

Current and former inmates of the Alabama prison system have filed a lawsuit challenging the prison labor program. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court says prisoners are forced to work for little and sometimes even no pay in jobs that benefit government entities or private companies. They called it a kind of ''modern day slavery."