Charles "Sonny" Burton, an Alabama man on death row, is scheduled for execution next month. Gov. Kay Ivey officially set the execution window for between midnight Thursday, March 12, and 6 a.m. the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama is asking a federal appellate court to stop the new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row for a ...

A state lawmaker has prefiled two bills for the 2026 session of the Alabama Legislature that would reduce the number of people on death row and end the practice altogether in the state. House Bill 70, ...

Alabama State Sen. April Weaver filed a bill that would create a new crime. The legislation would criminalize “interference with a first responder.” ...

In a civil rights suit filed in federal court in Alabama, lawyers allege that state prison policies make it unconstitutionally difficult for death row inmates to obtain lawyers to draft and file ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elizabeth Vartkessian: ‘Each case I work on could be described as a life that’s fallen through a crack’ - KT Kanazawich for The ...

New data from a national watchdog group shows juries nationwide are sentencing fewer people to death, but executions are rising. According to the newly released 2025 report from the Death Penalty ...