Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the first African American elected to the institution, thus becoming the first ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama executed a man on Thursday who was convicted in the 1991 rape, robbery and murder of a Birmingham ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is throwing her support behind a new bill to limit student cell phone use during instructional time ...

Demetrius Frazier, who was put to death in Alabama, criticized Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in his final words, reports say.

Yesterday, US prisoner Demetrius Terrence Frazier uttered his final words before being executed at Holman Correctional ...

The Alabama Senate Thursday approved a bill defining “sex-based terms” strictly based on biological sex.

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Chief Deputy Clay Hammac with the Shelby County Sheriffs Office said right now under current law, you can be arrested if you ...