The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spared the life of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was set to be executed this week for a killing he did not commit ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On ...

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the ...

An Orange County judge has denied Tommy Zeigler a new trial, ruling new DNA evidence doesn’t prove the 80-year-old is innocent in a 1975 quadruple murder.

After years of appeals, a federal judge threw out Derrick Jamison's conviction. Prosecutors dismissed the case in 2005.

An Orange County judge on Friday shut down William "Tommy" Zeigler’s latest attempt at a new trial in the notorious quadruple ...

With a December 3, 2026 execution date on the books, Blount County Circuit Court Judge David R. Duggan has ordered state-appointed experts to evaluate death-row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton, setting up a ...

Travis Scott is coming to the defense of a Texas man whose rap lyrics were used during sentencing to decide upon capital punishment.

Florida's death row population is shrinking. Learn about the only biological woman, Tina Brown, and trans woman Jenna Rodgers ...