Advocates for death row inmates in Louisiana are praising a decision this month by the U.S. Supreme Court that barred Alabama ...

Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Thursday afternoon that 41-year-old Jeremy Tremaine Williams is scheduled to be executed by the ...

Gov. Kay Ivey has set an execution time frame for Jeremy Williams, the Alabama death row inmate convicted in the rape and killing of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland.

As a longtime death penalty abolitionist, I've often compared the death penalty in America to a train with no brakes: Once the machinery starts moving, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to stop.

After the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to intervene in an Alabama case, the effort to end executions by nitrogen ...

The state declared execution unconstitutional in 1972, but reinstated capital punishment in 1981 under a law co-written by DeWine.

Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. As Steve Vladeck, a ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a death row inmate by lethal injection after a court ruled that using nitrogen gas in the case would be unconstitutionally cruel.