A Tennessee death row prisoner declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, saying he was protesting issues with medical care, the ...

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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

This is a clear example of judicial harassment made in retaliation for simply exercising one’s right to protest and freedoms ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Gunches wants to die. But controversy surrounds execution methods in Arizona, which hasn’t killed a prisoner since 2022.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.

In 2008, Galloway was charged with capital murder following the death of 17-year-old Shakeylia ... denied appeals in 2014 and 2024. In the new appeal filing Galloway’s attorneys say his Sixth ...

Frazier’s final words before being executed were, “Detroit strong”, “I love everybody on Death Row,” and “Let’s go ... executions with nitrogen gas, with three inmates put to death with the new method ...