Alabama has executed 78 individuals since 1976, when the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Nine prisoners were exonerated of their crimes and removed from death row, which raises the ...

Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the ... and shortly after Alabama began executing ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

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 ...