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

WASHINGTON −More than two decades after the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

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.