Alabama lawmakers are advancing a bill that would put oversight on the state’s parole board. The parole board has garnered ...

If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

Lawmakers presented legislation that would allow the state to borrow an additional $500 million to build two prisons, ...

The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would require anyone above the age of 18 who causes the ...

Alabama prison officials maintain that nitrogen hypoxia is a painless and effective method of execution, despite concerns ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41.

Frazier was the state’s first execution of 2025, and the fourth carried out by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier was executed for the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown. Prosecutors said Frazier broke into ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first execution in ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 billion, complicating plans to ...

MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 billion, ...