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

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

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

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

A man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery is set to be executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama this September. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has scheduled Geoffrey Todd West ...

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

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

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

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 ...