Alabama

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.

Katie Britt, who is a lawyer, was also the first woman to serve as president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama.

Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama, has died. He was 73. Cook had Parkinson’s disease and disclosed his diagnosis in 2017. A representative for the band says he died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Florida. The Country Music Hall of Fame says that as a guitarist, fiddle player and vocalist, Cook landed eight No. 1...

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Attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller say prison officials were “stabbing around his veins” for over an hour and left him hanging vertically on a gurney before calling off the execution.

Three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to execute convicted workplace shooter Alan Eugene Miller, the execution was called off over time and medical concerns.

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the execution to begin.

The toddler was inadvertently left inside the truck for seven hours in 90 degree temperatures. He was discovered still in his car seat when the grandfather went to pick up the child from day care, where he thought he had been dropped off that morning.

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said that so far investigators have listened to a little more than half of the 949 calls that Vicky White and Casey White made to each other from August 2021 to February, while he was in prison at the William Donaldson Correctional Facility. The pair weren’t related.

Five girls were gathered in a downstairs bathroom at 16th Street Baptist Church when a bomb planted by KKK members went off outside, blowing a huge hole in the thick, brick wall.

Alabama told a federal judge that it could be ready as soon as next week to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. Nitrogen hypoxia is a proposed execution method in which death would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, thereby depriving the person of oxygen needed to...

A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor has filed a federal lawsuit over the ordeal.

Jacob Blair Scott pleaded guilty to charges of sending a false distress call that led to a Coast Guard search; illegally shipping weapons across state lines and giving false information, according to court records.

Residents were outraged when the text messages surfaced in social media posts.

The 12-year-old girl was found wandering down a rural Alabama road earlier this week by a passing driver.

A 12-year-old girl, who had been tied up and drugged, was found wandering down a road in Alabama after she managed to escape. Deputies were led to the home where she was held captive and found two decomposed bodies.

Although she had been drugged and bound, the girl managed to escape and was discovered walking along a road in rural Alabama by a passing driver.

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. received a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting...

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