Of the 58 executions in Alabama since the death penalty was reinstated in 1983, 32 involved non-unanimous jury votes for sentencing recommendations, ranging from 11 to 1 for death to 11 to 1 for ...

A man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery is set to be executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama this September. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has scheduled Geoffrey Todd West ...

"Alabama is out on the limb and the U.S. Supreme Court has already suggested it might be pulling out the saw," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

Their stories all come to one point: the state tortured Smith to death. It happened again on Sept. 26, when Alabama executed Alan Eugene Miller . It happened again on Nov. 21 when Grayson was ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

Under Alabama’s death penalty system, after a jury finds someone guilty of murder, it then must decide if the killing involved an “aggravating” factor, such as committing a particularly ...

Alabama has the highest per capita death penalty rate in the country. In some years, it imposes more death sentences than Texas , a state with a population five times as large.

Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, in an August 5, 1999 file photo. Miller was sentenced to death after being convicted of a 1999 ...

The attorneys of an Alabama death row prisoner are fighting the state’s efforts to execute him by an “untested” method that lacks sufficient safety protocols, critics say, setting the stage ...

If Kenneth Eugene Smith is brought to the Alabama death chamber to face execution next week for his role in the 1988 murder-for-hire of a pastor's wife, the state plans to use an untested and ...

For example, consider Alabama, where, like Georgia — and unlike the majority of states increasingly ridding their laws of capital punishment — the death penalty continues to thrive.