Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

Death by nitrogen gas is currently permitted in four states: Alabama, Louisiana ... became the seventh death row execution in the country this year. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Tuesday, all in Alabama. Last year, the method was used to execute Carey Dale Grayson for the killing of Vickie DeBlieux ...

Known totals do not include thousands of people believed to have been executed in China, which remains the world’s lead ...

Tanzi was on death row for more than two decades for the 2000 murder of 49 ... Moises Sandoval Mendoza in Texas on April 23 ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this ... which is nearly identical to Alabama’s, Hoffman is to be strapped to a ...

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Who is on federal death row? Fed­er­al death row pris­on­ers from all over the coun­try are housed in the Special Confinement Unit at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana. Many death row ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall described nitrogen ... Inmates convicted of capital crimes may be sentenced to death, ...