MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WBRC) - Two lawmakers in Alabama continue to push for the death penalty in certain sex crimes against children. Senator April Weaver and Representative Matt Simpson say the horrific ...

After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.

Their legislation, originally sponsored in the Alabama House in the 2025 regular session, would have given prosecutors ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Alabama lawmakers are preparing to reintroduce a bill that would make the rape or sodomy of a child a capital offense, ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss legislation aimed at expanding the use of capital punishment.

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

Opinion Capital punishment might satisfy retributivist instincts. But it’s still unjust and should be abolished.

Capital punishment has long been used in the U.S. as “the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes.

Edward Zakrzewski, a man convicted of killing his family with a machete in 1994, was sentenced to death in Florida on ...

Ghana’s Parliament has voted to outlaw capital punishment, with a narrow exception for cases of high treason, making Ghana the 124th country to abolish the death penalty. The West African nation ...