An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara ...

Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole ...

Because if Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle—the principle that killing people, even people ...

President Joe Biden’s Monday announcement that he would commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates should not be seen as an act of mercy for people convicted of awful crimes. It was a ...

The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.

An annual report put together by a national group that tracks the death penalty says Florida led the nation this year in ...

Hightower killed Willie Tidwell, 61, and Barbara Tidwell, 65, in their home on April 17, 2020. Court records state the couple was murdered while the defendant was trying to steal two firearms and ...

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentence of 37 federal inmates but excluded Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life synagogue ...