Alabama Attorney General

Alabama Chief Justice Sarah Stewart used a new law to appoint a retired judge to handle the case against a man accused of the 2019 killing of a college student that drew national attention.

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell said he’s running for state attorney general. During his time on the bench, Mitchell is best known for writing a Supreme Court ruling saying frozen embryos are considered children under the state's Wrongful Death of Minor Act. The ruling allowed several couples to pursue wrongful death lawsuits after their frozen embryos were destroyed in a 2020 accident at a south Alabama storage facility.

The man who detonated a makeshift bomb outside of the Alabama attorney general’s office has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison. Kyle Calvert had plead guilty to the charge of malicious use of an explosive device. No people were hurt, and nearby buildings weren't damaged.

A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to let Carey Dale Grayson's execution proceed Thursday night. Alabama began using nitrogen gas to execute people on death row earlier this year.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is joining a comment letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency to deny California’s waiver request for its “Advanced Clean Fleets” regulation. The new rule attempts to impose an electric truck mandate on fleet owners, operators and manufacturers.

Alabama says a new state law expanding the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote won't be enforced until after the November election and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the effective date.

Fifteen states, including Alabama, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance.

Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

Federal authorities have arrested a man they said placed an explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general's office in February.

Investigators in Alabama have released a video recording showing a person of interest as they seek information about an explosion outside the state attorney general’s office.