Carey Dale Grayson is set to die Nov. 21. He was convicted of the brutal Feb. 22, 1994, slaying and mutilation of Vicki Lynn ...

The nation’s highest court weighed in on an Alabama Death Row inmate’s case on Monday, asking the appeals court to again rule ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama ...

Derrick Dearman, 36, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at William C. Holman Correctional ...

A federal judge Wednesday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution later this month by ...

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would resume federal executions if he won and make more ...

As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method’s future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness ...

The US Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at how it decided an Alabama man on death row was ...

Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of a man named Durk Van Dam in Alabama's Mobile County. Smith ...

Dennoriss Richardson was found hanging in an abandoned Alabama house and the FBI is now investigating the cause of his death.

However, the comparison to assisted suicide is not apt. Nobody on death row can freely assess the options and give meaningful ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...