The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

An Alabama inmate is asking a federal judge to block his nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over Eighth Amendment ...

Demetrius Frazier, a poor Black man on Alabama’s death row, is scheduled to be tortured to death by being forced to breathe ...

Frazier would be the state's first execution of 2025. He was convicted in 1991 of the rape and murder of Pauline Brown.

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate scheduled to be the fourth person put to death with nitrogen gas on Wednesday asked a federal ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...