Tag: Alabama

Alabama is the only state in the country that allows its judges to override juries on death penalty and life sentences, though the order is more often used in favor of capital punishment.

Alabama looks to end its last-in-the-US death penalty policy

Anna Giaritelli · March 6, 2017 5:01 am

When the owner of a drive-in movie theater located in the 2,300-person town of Henagar, Alabama, took to their business’s Facebook page Thursday night, it’s doubtful they expected to attract the attention of the national media. (iStock)

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Leave that Alabama drive-in alone

Emily Jashinsky · March 3, 2017 10:41 pm

Alabama is the last state in the nation to allow judicial overrides in capital cases. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Alabama moves closer to end ‘judicial overrides’ in capital cases

Kelly Cohen · February 24, 2017 5:33 pm

New Alabama Republican Sen. Luther Strange replaced outgoing Sen. Jeff Sessions after his confirmation as attorney general. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A new senator in Washington and an old sex scandal in Alabama

Philip Wegmann · February 9, 2017 10:39 pm

Alabama AG Luther Strange sworn in to replace Sessions in the Senate

Susan Ferrechio · February 9, 2017 7:13 pm

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has been named Thursday to the U.S. Senate seat left empty by Jeff Sessions. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Alabama AG picked to take Sessions’ seat in the Senate

Susan Ferrechio, Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2017 1:27 pm

Democrats changed the rules in 2013 so that only a simple majority is needed to approve a president's Cabinet nominees, and the Senate confirmed Sessions in a party-line vote. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Jeff Sessions confirmed as Trump’s attorney general

Kelly Cohen · February 9, 2017 12:20 am

Political analysts are predicting Alabama's Republican attorney general, Luther Strange will fill the U.S. Senate seat that will be left vacant after Sen. Jeff Sessions is confirmed as attorney general Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Alabama attorney general favored to succeed Sessions

Susan Ferrechio · February 8, 2017 10:45 pm

The bills would require transgender people use bathrooms that matched their birth gender. (AP Photo/Emery P. Dalesio, File )

Ten states pursuing their own ‘bathroom bill’

Kelly Cohen · January 21, 2017 6:39 am

President Obama on Thursday designated three new national monuments having to do with the Reconstruction era and the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama designates new national monuments to Reconstruction and civil rights

Alex Pappas · January 13, 2017 12:07 am

Democratic Rep. John Lewis has personal experience with Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions: both were photographed together in 2015 in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." (Photo courtesy of Todd Stacy)

Flashback: When Jeff Sessions and John Lewis linked arms at Edmund Pettus Bridge

Alex Pappas · January 11, 2017 7:52 pm

If Sen. Jeff Sessions becomes Attorney General, Alabama Gov. Rob Bentley could make an interim appointment to his advantage. (Twitter, @GovernorBentley)

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A sex scandal and open Senate seat in Alabama

Philip Wegmann · January 10, 2017 2:00 pm