As lethal injection drugs have become harder to come by, there have been far fewer executions across the country according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Stephen Bright, the former president ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

The planned execution for an Alabama Death Row inmate convicted of shooting a woman to death won’t happen next week. David Lee Roberts’ Aug. 21 execution was already put on hold by the state courts ...

The family of Anthony Boyd, an Alabama inmate set to be executed later this month, begged for his life to be spared at a press conference Wednesday morning. “This is not just about me. This is about ...

The United States executed two death row inmates Thursday evening, September 25—one in Alabama and one in Texas—as the number of state-sanctioned killings continues to rise. The executions of Geoffrey ...

An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at William C. Holman ...

An Alabama inmate who was convicted of killing a man over a drug debt is set to be executed on Thursday evening. It was the state’s latest death sentence to be carried out with nitrogen gas.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

MONTGOMERY (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate set to die this week asked the state's governor to meet with him "before an innocent man is executed." Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) -- An Alabama inmate died in silence Thursday evening for the 1984 murders of four people killed during a service station robbery. ''No last words," Tommy Jerry Fortenberry said ...

MONTGOMERY — Family members and supporters of an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed this month pleaded Wednesday for the state to spare his life as he maintained he did not commit the 1993 murder ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon turned down a request from an Alabama inmate to block his execution, which is scheduled for today. In an unsigned order, the justices denied Anthony Boyd’s plea ...