During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Death Row inmates protest executions at the prison by refusing to speak on a day that someone is being ... There were 25 executions in the United States last year. The death penalty has been ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, as well as beating the church secretary ...

Nelson has asked for his spiritual advisor, Jeff Hood, a death penalty opponent, to be in the execution chamber with him "to ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.