A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

A man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been executed in Mississippi. Richard Gerald Jordan died by lethal ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, saying Blacks were rejected from the jury during his ...