An Alabama judge has issued a stay of execution for a convicted killer allegedly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia while ...

An Alabama judge halted David Lee Roberts' execution for a mental health evaluation after claims of his incompetence.

Though there is not a distinct timeline set for the mental evaluation, Carter — the judge who stayed Roberts' execution — ...

A state judge has stayed an upcoming execution in Alabama to evaluate whether the man is too mentally ill to be put to ...

A Marion County judge ordered that David Lee Roberts undergo a psychiatric exam before his Aug. 21 execution date.

The Alabama Supreme Court and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have both refused to stop the execution of an Alabama inmate convicted of killing three people during the 1994 robbery of fast ...

The Alabama attorney general’s office, in asking justices to reject Hunt’s request for a stay of execution, wrote that Hunt has now been on death row longer than Lane was alive. Alabama last ...

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.

Alabama to execute a long-serving death row inmate for the 1988 beating death of a woman he dated By The Associated Press Updated June 10, 2025, 12:14 a.m.