The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee approved HB 403, sponsored by Rep. Russell Bedsole, R-Alabaster, at a ...

The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that the case of a man who died by suicide in Limestone Correctional Facility will ...

On March 26, 2025, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) made several arrests during an attempt to introduce ...

As U.S. authorities crack down on immigrants at universities in a fervor against pro-Palestinian protests, they quickly have ...

Birmingham's mayor says Alabama's ban on Glock switches "gives a local tool" for police and prosecutors, with violators ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Republican Bill Barfoot, the measure’s sponsor, estimates it would affect just 200 of the approximately 20,000 people in Alabama state prisons who were sentenced decades ago under a 1977 habitual ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature is just over halfway through the 2024 Legislative Session with Tuesday marking the ...

James Osgood, a 55-year-old death row inmate, was convicted of the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County ...

The state saw six executions in 2024 and ... according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The Alabama Department of Corrections lists 157 people currently on its death row.

Alabama’s governor and more than a dozen private businesses are free for now of allegations that they forced prisoners to participate in work programs and underpaid them, a federal judge said.

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...