Senate Bill 178, known as the Speedy Trial Act, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Chairman Will Barfoot, intends to expedite trials for violent criminal cases, reduce court backlogs and ensure swift ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

"You can't just up and commute a death sentence in Alabama. That's like canceling Christmas, or Robert E. Lee Day." ...

Gov. Kay Ivey made Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sad. Not just somewhat sad but “ deeply saddened,” or so Marshall ...

Steve Marshall, the forty-eighth Attorney General of Alabama, has built a notable career characterized by a steadfast ...

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.

Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...

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

Marshall, ever the political opportunist, instead chose to frame the governor’s decision as an affront to his authority ...