Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Robin Dion “Rocky” Myers called his lawyer a liar. “I kind of regretted it as soon as I said it,” Myers told AL.com through the phone. “I kind of slapped myself.” The remark came as he was stunned to ...

A group of former Alabama state and federal prosecutors, including a former Attorney General and a former U.S. Senator, filed ...

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...