As Christians across Alabama prepare to celebrate Easter, we are reminded of the hope that the cross brings and the values that ground our faith: redemption, grace and the promise of new life. Easter calls us to reflect not only on what we believe, but on how we live those beliefs out in our daily lives and in our communities.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday.

The Supreme Court has barred the death penalty for people with intellectual disabilities and for children whose brains are not yet fully developed.

An Alabama Reflector analysis of executions in the state over the past decade shows five of the state’s 67 counties account for almost half of the total number of death sentences imposed since 2012.

Alawmaker has prefiled a bill that would create a constitutional amendment to eliminate Alabama’s death penalty and put the question before voters in 2028.

During its inaugural press conference, representatives of the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty highlighted the uptick of executions in the South and the growth of public sentiment against the death penalty.

After recent DNA testing raised questions, a Montgomery man who Alabama has kept on a death row for 31 years will get another shot at justice. A federal judge has ordered a new trial in the 1992 murder case that landed Christopher Barbour in prison.