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

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

The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

On June 16, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution of David Lee Roberts, 59. Roberts is set to die by nitrogen ...

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

Alabama is preparing to execute a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Hunt was convicted ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of 2025 as in all of 2024.

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at 6:26 p ...

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.