Tim Mathis addresses lawmakers on the Joint Prison Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Mathis spoke about his son, who was killed in Elmore Correctional Facility in June 2024.

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...

Eight inmates on Alabama’s Death Row have filed lawsuits challenging the state’s nitrogen execution method, calling it unconstitutional. The lawsuits, all filed separately, were each filed in federal ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...

For the second year, loved ones and advocates spoke before a legislative committee designed to curb violence and improve conditions within the Alabama prison system. Again, they described the inhumane ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations.