That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

And it has shaped much of his work since he was finally able to secure his release in 2016, after spending 41 years in prison ... jury and sentenced to the electric chair. Throughout his ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

Macron, who visited Angola in March 2023, has reiterated his support for Lourenço's efforts as key mediator. Since November 2021, the armed M23 movement, has seized large swathes of territory ...

It eventually evolved into the system of prison farms, where prisoners—often poor and disproportionately Black—were put to work growing food for both the prison system and, at times ...

Russia handed prison sentences on Friday to three lawyers who had defended opposition leader Alexei Navalny until his death in a Russian prison last year, capping a protracted legal saga that has ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

A man convicted of a 2021 killing remained adamant it was not him as he was sentenced to decades in prison. Joseph Paul Edwards was ordered to spend 20 years in state prison during a hearing ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The state prison system in South Dakota is seeing its share of violence. There are currently more than a hundred court cases involving prison inmates in the hands of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...