Though “Louisiana officials argue that their execution plan is ‘similar but improved’ compared to Alabama’s,” Avery and ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

James Osgood, convicted in 2014 for the rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown, will be executed on April 24. He withdrew his ...

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court ...

Robin “Rocky” Myers has been on Alabama’s death row for more than 30 years. Then, on February 28, he became the first ...

The Alabama Supreme Court and Gov. Kay Ivey have cleared the way for death row inmate James Osgood to be put to death next ...

A group of former Alabama state and federal prosecutors, including a former Attorney General and a former U.S. Senator, filed ...

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...