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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks.

Lawyers for an Alabama inmate asked a judge to block the nation's second scheduled execution using nitrogen gas, arguing the first was a "horrific scene" that violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. In Alabama alone, at least three men have died since 2015.

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

The warden of an Alabama prison was arrested on drug charges, officials with the state prison system confirmed.

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped at an ATM. Justices granted the Alabama attorney general's request to authorize an execution date for Keith Edmund Gavin. Governor Kay Ivey will set the day of the execution, which will be carried out by lethal injection.

The families of Alabama prison inmates have filed lawsuits alleging that organs were harvested from the bodies of dead inmates, often against the wishes of relatives. CNN and the Courthouse News Service report Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm and the University of Alabama Birmingham are named in the suits.

The state of Alabama has a new online system to automatically notify crime victims when a state inmate has a parole date or is being released from prison.

North Carolina has joined Alabama and Mississippi to improve outcomes for more prisoners who return to society through an approach focused on education, health care and housing.

Inmates in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. A hidden path to America's dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country's largest maximum-security prison. Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning series “No Stone Unturned: Preserving Slave Cemeteries in Alabama” aired just as voters headed to the polls in 2023 to remove slavery from the State Constitution. Much of that labor, it was observed, happened among prison inmates.