Families seek answers after inmates’ bodies returned without internal organs
Agolia Moore was shocked to get a call telling her that her son was found dead in an Alabama prison of a suspected drug overdose.
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More Alabama IVF providers pause treatment after court ruling on frozen embryos
More in vitro fertilization providers in Alabama have paused parts of their treatment after the state Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally considered children. Alabama Fertility Services said in...
Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF in wake of ruling saying frozen embryos are children
A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of...
Warnings of the impact of fertility treatments in Alabama rush in after frozen embryo ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility treatments should be considered children under state law.
Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used
Alabama has executed a man with nitrogen gas, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital...
Alabama plans to carry out 1st nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks?
Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia....
Federal judge says Alabama can conduct nation’s 1st execution with nitrogen gas; appeal planned
A federal judge says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas later this month. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker refused Wednesday to block the scheduled...
Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice
As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation...