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

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

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

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

Alabama’s next execution is temporarily on pause in order to assess if the inmate in question is mentally competent enough to ...

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

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 ...

Alabama last year became the first state to carry out an execution with nitrogen gas, a method that involves pumping nitrogen through a face mask and depriving the inmate of oxygen.