Alabama performed its first execution of 2019 following a legal back and forth over whether the inmate could be put to death without a chaplain of...
A federal appeals court panel has blocked tonight’s scheduled execution of Dominique Ray over the state’s refusal to allow his imam in the execution room with...
Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) said that public hangings would be more effective than the standard death penalty for the killers of law enforcement officers....
When, in October 2016, I wrote “[d]eath row inmates in Alabama are human guinea pigs” because the state’s capital punishment regime — specifically its barbaric, often bungled lethal...
The State of Alabama executed an 83-year-old man Thursday evening for a 1989 bombing that claimed the life of a federal appeals judge in Alabama. Alabama put...
Two other states have nitrogen hypoxia listed as a method of execution in the state law books, but Alabama would be the first to offer it...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter A bill passed Thursday in the Alabama Senate would mark a new evolution in the history of the death penalty...
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Senate Judiciary Committee gave a favorable report to a bill Wednesday that would allow death row inmates to select...
By Stephen Cooper Contributed In a New Year’s Eve display of liberal newspaper death penalty abolition harmony – buoyed by the release of the Death Penalty...
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, the state of Alabama executed Torrey McNabb in Holman prison in Atmore, Alabama, by lethal injection. McNabb was convicted...
