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

Now 55 years old, Barbour isn’t the only person who remains in Alabama’s prison system despite evidence suggesting he didn’t ...

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

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

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

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 is preparing to execute a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Hunt was convicted ...

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

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening. Anthony Wainwright was put to death in Florida and Gregory Hunt was killed ...

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.

ATMORE, Ala. — A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas.