Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, is running for reelection against Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican who represents the state's 10th congressional district, while in the race to replace Gov. Brian Kemp, former ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she was commuting Toforest Johnson's death sentence to life in prison without parole.

Toforest Johnson’s conviction in the 1995 killing of a sheriff’s deputy relied on the testimony of a woman who was paid ...

In a rare move on Tuesday, Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey granted clemency to Toforest Johnson, who has been on death row ...

An SBI agent told jurors a handwritten note found on the accused killer’s laptop resembled one left at the crime scene.

Christa and I have been communicating regularly via a messaging system on her prison table for over a year. Her experience is ...

Andrea Shaw, 23, was taken into custody in June after her 18-month-old daughter and son, Dallas and Tyson, were found dead in ...

Paul Skalnik passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney and a terminal cancer ...

Johnson was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for the 1995 death of Jefferson County Deputy William G. Hardy, who was shot ...

The value of something is reflected by the punishment given for destroying it. Two very different death penalty cases have been in the news recently. Each raises a different objection to capital ...