An Alabama man who is on death row for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl said he wants the state to fast-track his ...

Jeremy Tremaine Williams, 41, was accused of paying the girl's mom $1,300 for permission to rape the five-year-old before he ...

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he wasn't in the building.

Alabama state officials are seeking to schedule two executions this year, a few weeks after Gov. Kay Ivey commuted an ...

Kay Ivey reflecting on her childhood and accomplishments sparked hundreds of requests for the governor to use her authority ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday set the execution for Charles Lee Burton for March 12. He was convicted in 1992 of the capital murder of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man Thursday evening who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago, despite a request from the victim’s family to spare ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...