A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this year.

Man convicted of double murder in South Carolina chooses firing squad for execution. The method has not been used in the US ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

A prisoner scheduled to be executed next week in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in over two years has passed up a chance to ask for a reprieve from his death ...

An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South ...

Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A recent legislative effort to abolish the death penalty in Indiana has gained bipartisan ... but the panel has not scheduled a hearing on the measure.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...