Sunday, June 14, 2026

ALGOP opens Tuberville hearing to press after closure concerns Supreme Court blocks state’s plan to carry out nitrogen hypoxia execution Alabama State Board of Education hears possible changes to world language studies Medical Cannabis board reports on first week of sales, reopens lab applications UA student earns Black Warrior Riverkeeper scholarship grant ALGOP opens Tuberville hearing to press after closure concerns Supreme Court blocks state’s plan to carry out nitrogen hypoxia execution Alabama State Board of Education hears possible changes to world language studies Medical Cannabis board reports on first week of sales, reopens lab applications UA student earns Black Warrior Riverkeeper scholarship grant ALGOP opens Tuberville hearing to press after closure concerns Supreme Court blocks state’s plan to carry out nitrogen hypoxia execution Alabama State Board of Education hears possible changes to world language studies Medical Cannabis board reports on first week of sales, reopens lab applications UA student earns Black Warrior Riverkeeper scholarship grant

Leigh Gwathney

Prisons

Board schedules 79 parole hearings, 30 pardon hearings this week

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles will review 109 applicants this week after a year of record-low approvals.

January 15, 2024

Attorney: Most parole hearings have become a waste of time

Birmingham attorney Matthew A. Bailey said clients he was once confident would be granted parole are now a "coin toss."

October 26, 2022

Board denies parole to Jimmy O’Neal Spencer

Spencer is accused of killing three people including a child in 2018 eight months after being released on parole.

August 9, 2022