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

The Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed that Frazier selected the fast food items before his execution by nitrogen gas on Thursday evening. Frazier was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at the ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

The Alabama Department of Corrections said five news media members are among the execution witnesses: The Associated Press, the Montgomery Advertiser, AL.com, WBRC and WVTM. Greta Cross is a ...

Alabama Senate passes a bill allowing $500 million more for state prison construction, raising borrowing to $1.28 billion.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama ...

The previous three have been contentious points of conversation nationwide because of the controversial method that the State ...

The Alabama Supreme Court recently issued an order to the Alabama Department of Corrections to carry out Frazier's execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier had two visitors and one phone call on ...

Frazier remained in the legal custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections, a state where the death penalty was outlawed in 1847. But he was executed in Alabama, where he was transferred ...