Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re ...

A Lee Enterprises investigation found most states fail to protect vulnerable women and few law enforcement agencies punish the owners of the businesses, let alone go after their support networks.

Rachiel Moore was sentenced to life in a Florida prison for having her ex-stepdad kill the father of her 4-year-old after the ...

Sex offender registration is designed to “protect the public from perverts,” former guard's attorney says, adding that her ...

Alabama has executed a man who said he was guilty of a woman's rape and murder and deserved to die. Fifty-five-year-old James ...

Police are searching for an inmate who escaped from a work detail in south Alabama. Randy Jerome Richburg, 51, walked off ...

Richburg is described as 5 feet, 11 inches in height and weighing 220 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes.

This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections, shows James Osgood, who was convicted of capital murder for the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown, in Chilton County ...

Osgood, 55, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday at his south Alabama prison. He’s one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges.

Osgood, 55, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday at his south Alabama prison. Alabama has also carried out four nitrogen gas executions in recent months, the first state to use that ...

James Osgood, 55, was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. Thursday after receiving a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison, according to a statement from Gov. Kay Ivey. Before the execution ...