A horrific crime leads to get-tough policies to ensure the tragedy never happens again. That happened in 2018, after a ...

Alabama lawmakers are preparing to reintroduce a bill that would make the rape or sodomy of a child a capital offense, ...

Seven people have been arrested in connection with the disturbing case in Alabama, which has led local calls for the death ...

Twenty-eight men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025.

Alabama lawmakers are holding a news conference to propose extending the death penalty to individuals convicting of sexually ...

The motion comes after seven people were arrested in Bibb County in a sexual abuse case; their charges range from rape to ...

A Bibb County grand jury indicted five Alabama men and two women in the case. They face accusations of raping, sodomizing and ...

Their legislation, originally sponsored in the Alabama House in the 2025 regular session, would have given prosecutors ...

An Alabama state judge has ordered a mental health evaluation to see if a man on death row with a history of mental illness ...

Two lawmakers in Alabama continue to push for the death penalty in certain sex crimes against children. Senator April Weaver ...