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 state prison volunteer chaplain and an Alabama Department of Corrections employee were arrested this week in separate ...

Two Alabama prison inmates were killed Thursday during a fight inside Elmore Correctional Facility. The Alabama Department of Corrections on Friday confirmed the killings and identified the slain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, ...

“The Alabama Solution,” a critically acclaimed documentary about Alabama’s prison system, earned an Academy Award nomination ...

An Alabama death row inmate, who insists he is an "innocent man," asked Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to meet with him before the state puts him to death later this week. Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to ...

The inmate who escaped from a Florence, Alabama, jail with a corrections officer last Friday was awaiting trial on capital murder charges. But those charges were just the latest in a litany of other ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas.

An investigation is underway after a fight inside an Alabama prison left two inmates dead, the Alabama Department of ...

An Oscar-nominated documentary shot by inmates exposes brutal conditions in Alabama prisons, drawing sharp criticism from the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate ...