JACKSON – Attorneys for death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford want the state’s highest court to hear oral arguments in the latest appeal of his 30-year-old capital murder conviction and ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

Hoffman, 45, has been on Louisiana’s death row since 1998 for the rape and murder of Mary “Molly” Elliot, a New Orleans hotel executive. In November 1996, Hoffman kidnapped Elliot at ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas - David Leonard Wood is angry. He’s angry that he’s been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades when no DNA evidence links him to the murders of six women and girls in El ...

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after ... convicted of a murder-for-hire plot involving his boss, hotel owner Barry Van Treese (Glossip has long denied the ...

The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row ...

Gladys and David Larke South Carolina Department of Corrections A South Carolina man on death row has opted to die by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for beating his ex ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

Currently, there are 57 inmates on death row in Louisiana, and the most recent execution in the state was in 2010. Now, the only woman on Louisiana's death row, Antionette Frank, could soon ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher ...