Alabama Port Authority and Director and CEO John Driscoll called the project a game changer. “This facility will provide ...

Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted a death sentence for the first time in her tenure Friday, sparing inmate Robin Dion "Rocky" Myers. The Alabama Supreme Court had cleared the way for Myers to ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years.

For Marshall, restraint is weakness. His rage over Ivey’s decision reveals a man who sees capital punishment not as a last ...