On Feb. 24, John Hamm, the director of Alabama's Department of Corrections, informed Gov. Kay Ivey that he had completed the investigation of the state's execution process that she requested last ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate, who survived a botched execution in November after more than three hours, said a second attempt "will fare no better than the first." Kenneth Smith was ...

The comments came in new documents filed Monday in Kenneth Smith’s federal lawsuit. Smith was set to be executed by lethal injection in November 2022, but survived after Alabama Department of ...

(CNN)Alabama will resume the executions ... to conduct a "top-to-bottom review of the state's execution process" after problems with multiple lethal injections came into the national spotlight ...

The death penalty was put on hold following a series of botched lethal injections ... file for the execution of a death-row prisoner. Christine_Kohler; Alex Wong "Far too many Alabama families ...

Idaho is one step closer to allowing execution by firing squad as an alternative death penalty sentence to lethal injection after lawmakers passed the bill with a veto-proof majority.

Firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections — but one death row inmate has already had his scheduled execution postponed multiple times because of ...

An Alabama freshman football player was arrested on drug charges Wednesday in Florida, according to AL.com and a Facebook post from the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office. Tony Mitchell, a four-star ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate, who survived a botched execution in November after more than three hours, said a second attempt "will fare no better than the first." Kenneth Smith was ...