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

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 has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

James Osgood, a convict on Alabama's death row, wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an "eye for an eye." "I'm a firm believer in, like I said in court, an eye for an ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

The doctoral student has admitted to breaking into the rental home and killing four University of Idaho students.

The killings took place in Republican-controlled states, Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina, "as Donald Trump has pushed to revive the death penalty" despite the "growing concerns about ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of ...

Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. on Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Strapped to a gurney, Hunt gave no final ...