Attorney General Steve Marshall believes adding the death penalty to severe acts against children could help prevent the ...

A Bibb County grand jury indicted five Alabama men and two women in the case. They face accusations of raping, sodomizing and ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall held a news conference Thursday morning to discuss extending the death penalty to ...

The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy ...

"The interior temperature of the car where KJ was trapped likely exceeded 150 degrees," an attorney for the family said.

Kela Stanford, a former transport driver for The Covenant Services, is charged with leaving a child unattended in a motor ...

A pair of Alabama lawmakers held a press conference in Montgomery Thursday morning to talk about their push to make child ...

Lawmakers announced a proposed bill Thursday that would allow the death penalty to be given to criminals who commit rape or sodomy of children under the age of ...

A recent case of horrific child sexual abuse has prompted lawmakers to consider allowing use of the death penalty for child sex crimes.

Alabama lawmakers are holding a news conference to propose extending the death penalty to individuals convicting of sexually assaulting children on Thursday.