Murder

A corrections officer on Wednesday agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in the case of a mentally ill man who froze to death in an Alabama jail. Braxton Kee is the 14th employee who has been indicted or pleaded guilty to contributing to the death of Tony Mitchell, 33, who died after being incarcerated in the Walker County jail in January 2023.

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.

A Mobile, Alabama woman and toddler whose remains were discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from the victims of Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach killings. The two were identified Wednesday as a U.S. Army veteran from Alabama and her daughter.

An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to capital murder for his role in the death of seven people. WAFF-TV reports that John Michael Legg entered the guilty plea Wednesday. Frederic Rogers, who was also charged in the killings, was convicted of capital murder earlier this year.

A Massachusetts jury is deliberating in the case of an Alabama man accused of the beating and stabbing death of an 11-year-old New Hampshire girl more than 35 years ago.

Alabama is set to carry out the nation’s second execution ever using nitrogen gas after becoming the first state to use the new procedure in January. Alan Miller is set to die by the process on Thursday, Sept. 26, in which a mask is placed over the inmate’s head that forces the inmate to inhale pure nitrogen.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed by chemical injection Thursday evening in Alabama. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said.

An Alabama man wanted in connection with homicides in Oklahoma and Alabama has been apprehended in Arkansas. 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake was taken into custody Thursday around 10 a.m. in a wooded area in Morrilton, Arkansas and has an extradition hearing scheduled for Friday.

Authorities say they are searching for an Alabama man wanted in connection with three homicides in Oklahoma. Arkansas State Police said Wednesday that local law enforcement agencies are working to locate 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake.

The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances. New details in the killing emerged Wednesday as Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Holloway's mother, resolving a case that has captivated the public's attention for nearly 20 years.