Alabama death penalty

A federal judge has halted the execution of an Alabama inmate just hours before he was to be put to death.Chief U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins on…

Two Alabama death row inmates are asking the state Supreme Court to halt their executions scheduled for next month. Lawyers on Wednesday asked the Alabama…

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by four Alabama death-row inmates challenging the state's use of a controversial sedative at the start…

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay on the execution of an Alabama prison inmate.The nation's high court stayed the execution of Tommy…

The United States Supreme Court will not reconsider the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month.Yesterday, Supreme Court…

An Alabama committee has passed a bill allowing death row inmates to be executed with nitrogen gas. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the measure 6-3…

State lawmakers return from spring break Tuesday to a full plate of issues. State budgets, prison construction and action on the proposed impeachment of…

The Alabama House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on a bill prohibiting judges from imposing a death sentence after a jury recommends…

An Alabama man is just hours away from execution by lethal injection. Ronald Bert Smith was sentenced to die for killing a convenience store clerk in…

An Alabama inmate set to be executed next week is asking the governor to intervene because a judge imposed his death sentence over a jury's recommendation…