Michael Taylor was convicted of a double homicide more than 33 years ago. Thursday evening, the State of Alabama enacted its ...

Because of a failure by the nation’s highest court to enforce the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the experiment continues. That was the conclusion of three U.S. Supreme Court ...

Everyone in town knows the question, but they all have a different answer. Who is the mayor of Newbern, Alabama? Todd McGilberry, owner of the Newbern Mercantile, one of the only businesses in town, ...

It was one of the first things Kenneth Smith saw Thursday night when unnamed representatives of the State of Alabama pulled back the curtains of the execution chamber where he would soon die. “I will ...

ATMORE, Ala.—Jeffery Lee had thought long and hard about what makes us human. After the death of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, Lee wrote about the topic in a piece called ...

A day after Alabama’s senior senator made comments suggesting that inner-city school teachers may not be able to read, his brother took to social media to call him out. Charles Tuberville, a ...

Sonny Burton can no longer walk. His loved ones worry that, should the time come, prison staffers will have to roll the 75-year-old into Alabama’s execution chamber on a gurney. One final indignity, ...

Atmore, Ala. — Steven Tiggleman said that at first, those around him tried to keep news of Alan Miller’s pending execution from him. They thought it may be too much. Earlier this year, Tiggleman ...

There were no protestors today on the side of Highway 21 in Atmore, Alabama, outside Holman Correctional Facility where the state would soon begin its execution of James Osgood. Instead, under a ...

After, there was the water and its wake. Then came the bullets. The storm began before the sun had even risen on Sunday, March 26. Soon, hail as large as grapefruits fell across Camp Hill, Alabama, a ...

ATMORE, Ala.—Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted Sonny Burton’s sentence of death. She made the announcement Tuesday morning. Barring further legal developments, Burton , 75, will now serve the remainder of ...

They thought Warrior would bring them closer to God. So the family of four — mother, father, daughter and son — sold their house in Ohio and made the move to Alabama. It was a leap of faith. “If God ...