Rep. Jim Hill, R-Moody, a former St. Clair County circuit judge, opposed the bill. Hill said he hears legislators saying they ...

The case was resolved in 2017 after a year of legal wrangling where the man was first given then denied youthful offender ...

HB146 passed in the House, restricting youthful offender status for intentional murder over sparking debate over judicial ...

Jury selection and opening statements marked the start of Jayvon Phillips' trial for the 2020 kidnapping and murder of Tameka ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

This claim is unusual, though not unprecedented, in capital cases. Before saying more ... ty have had their asser­tions of intel­lec­tu­al disability rejected.” It will be up to the judge ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...