30-year-old inmate fatally stabbed inside Alabama prison
An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...
Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape
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 named Greenville's 2024 Worthy Citizen
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 ...
Execution date set for man convicted of setting elderly Garland store clerk on fire
Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection May 20 in Huntsville, according to the Texas ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
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 Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...
Crews respond to Madison County Jail after fire in inmate’s cell
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WAFF) - Crews with Huntsville Fire and Rescue responded to the Madison County Jail on Wheeler Ave. on ...
South Carolina sets next execution date as inmate questions lethal injection doses
The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...
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‘I’m at peace’- Texas inmate who strangled church pastor says before his execution in front of wife
A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...
Why death row inmate was refused final meal before being executed in front of wife who held up dog to watch
Death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection on Wednesday (5 February) having been refused a ...