The US state of Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death for a murder committed decades ago, marking the first ...

Arizona is scheduled to execute its first prisoner in more than two years. Aaron Brian Gunches was scheduled to be lethally ...

The attorneys of convicted killer Mikal Mahdi, are asking the South Carolina Supreme Court to stop his scheduled execution ...

Across the Trump administration, officials are pushing the law to its limits to justify the president's efforts to ...

Wendell Arden Grissom has been described in court records as someone who is “much more than the worst thing he did." He's set ...

Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr ...

Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, March 19, at 10 a.m. for the 2002 shooting death of Ted ...

Executions in the state date back to Louisiana's early colonial period when under French and Spanish rule. Under French rule, execution was used as a way to instill fear and uphold order and the ...

A House committee considered a bill on Tuesday that will overhaul search warrant practices for Illinois police agencies. The ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

According to the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections Gary Westcott, Hoffman was pronounced dead by ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...