A majority of Senate Republicans initially sank the bill on a 16-16 vote, but after nearly two hours of uncertainty, the bill ...

A Jefferson County man has been sentenced to prison for the 2019 shooting death of another man in Birmingham. Ray Franklin Jr ...

A Republican-led bill that would allow resentencing for prisoners serving life sentences for nonviolent offenses has narrowly ...

After two rounds of voting, the Alabama Senate approved a bill that would provide a process for some inmates serving life in ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns. A bipartisan coalition pushed the Alabama legislation after ...

Michael Waltz defended the administration’s deportation of alleged gang members to violent mega-prisons in El Salvador on ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder was scheduled to be executed Wednesday in the state’s first use of ...