After years of appeals, a federal judge threw out Derrick Jamison's conviction. Prosecutors dismissed the case in 2005.

Unless Kay Ivey, the governor of Alabama, decides to commute Mr. Burton’s sentence, the state is set to kill him on March 12.

Is death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton mentally competent enough to be executed by the state? That’s the question being asked ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the summer ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ...

Michael Sockwell was convicted in the 1988 killing of a Montgomery County deputy in a murder-for-hire arranged by the deputy's wife.

One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates could soon receive a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the state’s appeal of a lower court's ruling that prosecutors violated his ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

The conservative leader was ousted from office after he declared martial law and sent troops to surround the National ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s decision to vacate the death sentence of Leo Louis Kaczmar III, ordering that his sentence for the 2008 murder of Maria Ruiz be ...

A state district court judge is challenging a reprimand stemming from a legal dispute with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office over her handling of a death row inmate’s brain scan in Houston.

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