A death row inmate who raped and murdered a five-year-old girl is begging authorities to execute him as fast as possible.

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On Monday, the court declined to review the state's appeal of a lower court ...

Maybe he was confused. Or scared. But the confession had to be true. Surely Christopher Barbour just got the name wrong and ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton, an Alabama man on death row, is scheduled for execution next month. Gov. Kay Ivey officially set the execution window for between midnight Thursday, March 12, and 6 a.m. the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala, (AP) — One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates could soon receive a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that ...

Alabama is asking a federal appellate court to stop the new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row for a crime that DNA doesn’t tie him to. The Alabama Attorney General’s Office ...

The governor of Alabama has commuted a death sentence, which doesn't happen very often. The case involves someone convicted for murder who did not pull the trigger. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.