Cordel Ladon Battle was found with sustained sharp force injuries during a reported assault, according to the Jefferson County Coroner.

A Madison County inmate has died as a result of an assault that happened while he was serving time behind bars.

An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

An inmate serving a Madison County sentence at the William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer died Tuesday after ...

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the decision banning ...

Randy Tarpley was named Greenville’s Worthy Citizen at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce/Greenville Board of Development’s annual banquet on Friday night. The award was not only in recognition of his ...

Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection May 20 in Huntsville, according to the Texas ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WAFF) - Crews with Huntsville Fire and Rescue responded to the Madison County Jail on Wheeler Ave. on ...