The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the ...

HB49, sponsored by Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, stated that a person age 18 or older could face death or life imprisonment if ...

Alabama lawmakers moved forward with a bill allowing the death penalty for child rapists, hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will reassess its 2008 decision that deemed such punishment unconstitutional.

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 ...

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life ...

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill, sponsored by Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne). It would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for defendants charged with rape or sodomy ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...