Alabama death row inmate Toforest Johnson seeks new hearing on conviction
Attorneys for Alabama death row inmate Toforest Johnson filed a petition in Jefferson County Circuit Court Thursday seeking a ...
Federal appeals court won’t block upcoming nitrogen gas execution in Alabama
A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week. The 11th U.S.
Supreme Court orders more review of Alabama’s request to execute inmate courts said is intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama ...
Alabama to execute Carey Dale Grayson this week for murder of hitchhiker
Alabama is set to execute Carey Dale Grayson by nitrogen gas hypoxia Thursday evening for a brutal Jefferson County murder.
US Supreme Court calls ruling ‘unclear’ on whether Alabama Death Row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith intellectually disabled
The nation’s highest court weighed in on an Alabama Death Row inmate’s case on Monday, asking the appeals court to ...
Supreme Court Orders New Look at IQ Scores in Death Resentencing
The US Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at how it decided an Alabama man on death row was ...
Trump expected to end Biden-era death penalty pause, expand to more federal inmates
President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...
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Should we allow prisoners on death row to volunteer for execution?
Nobody on death row can freely assess the options and give ... In 2022, when the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama first reviewed Dearman’s case, it noted that he was then claiming he was ...