A bill in the Alabama Legislature could soon make first-degree rape and sodomy of a child under 12 punishable by death.

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the ...

“Today, the Florida Legislature has passed the strongest legislation to combat illegal immigration of any state in the entire ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

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Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

ATMORE, ALA – Demetrius Terrence Frazier, a Michigan man on Alabama death row, became the first person executed while in the ...

An inmate who spent more than 25 years on Death Row for murder was executed by lethal injection in the southern state of ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...