Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Family members and supporters of an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed this month pleaded Wednesday for the state to spare his life as he maintained he did not commit the ...

Alabama is considering significant changes to its death penalty laws with the introduction of two new bills. HB70 seeks to ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man over a drug debt was set to be executed Thursday evening in the state’s latest death sentence carried out with nitrogen gas.

One proposal would allow those sentenced to death before a 2017 law change to be resentenced. The other would put capital ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Will Berry was 11 when his mother was killed. Thirty-three-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry was shot in the back of the head during a robbery at the gas station where she worked.