The Latest Breaking News from James Barber

Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after a slew of last-minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.

It was the first execution carried out in Alabama this year after the state halted executions in November

Alabama plans to execute an inmate for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to carry out its first lethal injection after a pause following a string of problems with inserting the IVs

James Barber due to die on Friday but granddaughter of Dorothy Epps, the woman he murdered, doesn’t want it to happen

A federal appeals court has refused to stop an upcoming execution in Alabama

James Barber is set to be killed next month, the first execution after a string of botched lethal injection executions in the state.

James Barber was arrested by police officers at the nursery where he worked as a cook

After an array of botched and unsuccessful executions, the state's Department of Corrections says its ready to start executing inmates again.

Top state officials seem more interested in killing more killing than in fixing their gruesome mistakes