ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, ...

Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey's ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...

Texas and Alabama are poised to execute death row inmates within minutes of each other on the same day this week. On Thursday, Sept. 25, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West, 50, by the relatively ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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) — A man put to death using ...