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

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

Alabama has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a ...

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, ...

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

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

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...