A bill prohibiting judges from granting youthful offender status in murder cases passed the Alabama House Tuesday. House Bill ...

Rep. Jim Hill, R-Moody, a former St. Clair County circuit judge, opposed the bill. Hill said he hears legislators saying they don’t want judges making law or legislating from the bench, and he agrees, ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for ...

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Karen McPherson was serving time for the first-degree kidnapping of Jasper lawyer Carrie Lawson from her home in 1991.

A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s execution protocol is a public record, in a case that could decide ...

A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution protocol is a public record as the federal ...

Ex-BBC1 controller Danny Cohen called on U.K. culture secretary Lisa Nandy to ensure "wider systemic issues of anti-Israel ...

A woman serving a life sentence for her role in a notorious Walker County kidnapping case has escaped from a work release ...

The BBC has insisted that it was told by producers that no money from the film, which focuses on the lives of children in war ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin Meyers, a first for her time in office and the first commutation ...

A former BBC TV chief has warned that the BBC was "manipulated by terrorists" over its controversial Gaza documentary.