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

Demetrius Terrance Frazier was the fourth person executed in the United States using nitrogen hypoxia, which involves replacing breathable air with pure nitrogen gas ...

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

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.

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

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

The head football coach at a south Alabama high school was arrested Friday in Florida on nearly a dozen criminal charges.

"The Alabama Department of Corrections has now carried out four executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which has proven to be both constitutional and effective," Attorney General Marshall said in a ...

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 ...