Alabama lawmakers are preparing to reintroduce a bill that would make the rape or sodomy of a child a capital offense, ...

Attorney General Steve Marshall believes adding the death penalty to severe acts against children could help prevent the ...

A Bibb County grand jury indicted five Alabama men and two women in the case. They face accusations of raping, sodomizing and ...

Kela Stanford was booked in Jefferson County Friday morning. She posted bond and has been released, pending a court date.

A pair of Alabama lawmakers held a press conference in Montgomery Thursday morning to talk about their push to make child ...

Kela Stanford, a former transport driver for The Covenant Services, is charged with leaving a child unattended in a motor ...

Ke’Torrius Starkes Jr., of Bessemer, was found in a hot car outside a home on Pine Tree Drive, according to the coroner. The child had been left alone in the car for more than five hours.

Lawmakers announced a proposed bill Thursday that would allow the death penalty to be given to criminals who commit rape or sodomy of children under the age of ...

A recent case of horrific child sexual abuse has prompted lawmakers to consider allowing use of the death penalty for child sex crimes.

Alabama lawmakers are holding a news conference to propose extending the death penalty to individuals convicting of sexually assaulting children on Thursday.