Recently, Frazier’s mother and death penalty opponents had pleaded to Whitmer to take Frazier back to his home state of ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

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

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill, sponsored by Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne). It would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for defendants charged with rape or sodomy ...

Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The ...

Alabama Seeks to Join States That Allow the Death Penalty for Child Rape MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced ...