Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was executed using controversial nitrogen gas in the early hours of Friday morning - his ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row ...

The Arizona Supreme Court set a March 19 execution date Tuesday for a man who pleaded guilty to murder more than 17 years ago ...

A Rapides Parish judge on Monday signed a warrant of execution for a man sentenced to death in 1994 for killing two people in ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...