Geoffrey Todd West is scheduled to be executed for killing a woman during a robbery at a gas station in Etowah County.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a federal crime that could carry the death penalty.
Some Alabama lawmakers and other officials want tougher penalties for anyone who sexually abuses a child.
A federal appeals court ruled prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in Alabama in 1990, saying Blacks were rejected from the jury during his trial.
The State of Alabama has set an execution date for a man who dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death for the 2010 rape and murder of a woman in Chilton County.
A man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker in St. Clair County was put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.
Alabama is preparing to execute Alan Eugene Miller by using nitrogen gas.
The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method.
The Alabama House Judiciary Committee has rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 5-year-old Georgia girl has been given four death sentences for the crime.
