The Latest Breaking News from Alabama Department of Corrections

Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after a slew of last-minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.

Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to become the first death row inmate to be executed with nitrogen. His pastor says the untested procedure is a cruel violation of religious liberties, Bevan Hurley reports

‘He had dreams of obtaining his freedom, joining his mother and starting a new and productive life’

Attorneys say an Alabama inmate was "subjected to ever-escalating levels of pain and torture” during an aborted execution

The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.

A former corrections officer said Alabama is no longer in control of its prisons and said he believes federal officials should intervene in the system

Guards asleep on duty, meagre meals and cells covered in filth: incarcerated people across the southern US state of Alabama have refused to work since September 26 in protest against shocking conditions in overcrowded facilities, including violence, neglect and poor hygiene. The strike has brought prisons, which depend on and…

Alabama officials botched the execution of death row inmate Alan Eugene Miller earlier this month and now a court has ordered evidence to be preserved after 18 failed attempts to find a vein

Ruling gets at larger questions around state’s execution protocols