Alabama has set an April execution date for a man who dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death for the 2010 rape and murder of ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned next week after a federal appeals court<a ...

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court ...

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday an official time for the execution of James Osgood for the murder and rape of Chilton ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department ... recommended at his 1994 trial. The Republican governor said she is a staunch supporter of the death penalty but “I have enough questions ...

The Saudi prisoner agreed to the settlement to avoid a death-penalty trial, his lawyer said, but it has yet to reach the ...

Henry McMaster, asking to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment without parole, saying in a news release, “Sigmon ...

Testimony continued during the second day of this trial in Russell County, where a suspect is charged with capital murder and ...

Gov. Kay Ivey made Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sad. Not just somewhat sad but “ deeply saddened,” or so Marshall ...

Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin Meyers, a first for her time in office and the first commutation ...