The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he ...

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

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

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued nitrogen hypoxia is cruel and unusual punishment and an infringement on his freedom to practice religion.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

Judge Boyd Patterson agreed that the anonymous juror method would be used in this case in which Andre Grier is charged in the ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method.

Therefore, ashes represent both death and repentance. Christian religion ... while the Eastern Orthodox Church uses the ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.