Alabama Music Hall of Fame board members have placed Executive Director Sandra Burroughs Killen on administrative leave while ...

Senate Bill 178, known as the Speedy Trial Act, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Chairman Will Barfoot, intends to expedite trials for violent criminal cases, reduce court backlogs and ensure swift ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

Make no mistake about it, this event led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which gave the vote to Black Americans ...

"You can't just up and commute a death sentence in Alabama. That's like canceling Christmas, or Robert E. Lee Day." ...

Former Miss Alabama, and current 2025 Miss America Abbie Stockard will serve as the Grand Marshall for the 2025 Children's of ...

Gov. Kay Ivey made Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sad. Not just somewhat sad but “ deeply saddened,” or so Marshall ...

Steve Marshall, the forty-eighth Attorney General of Alabama, has built a notable career characterized by a steadfast ...

Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.

Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...