A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama man on death row who argued that DNA evidence shows he's innocent.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ordered the execution of death row inmate Geoffrey Todd West to be carried out using nitrogen ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate are attempting to show that nitrogen hypoxia executions cause unnecessary suffering.

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the ...

A judge last month stayed the Aug. 21 execution of David Lee Roberts until a mental evaluation could be conducted to see if Roberts is competent to be executed. The Alabama Department of Corrections ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the victim’s body. Chief U.S. District Judge Emily C.

That’s what the desperately grim pleas for mercy from the condemned sound like these days in Alabama as reported August 19th ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits for the completion of a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. A judge ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An inmate once called the "Houdini" of Alabama's death row for escaping seven past execution dates through legal challenges was put to death early Friday for a 1982 murder-for-hire ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay ...

Prejean, a prominent death penalty advocate, and others want the California governor to commute the sentence of every ...