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.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that ...

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from ...

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 ...

Shahzadi Khan, 33, from UP, was executed in Abu Dhabi after being convicted of murdering a child she was caring for. She had traveled for plastic surgery but ended up as a domestic worker.

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 ...

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 ...

“Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.,” Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Sepulvado, said in a statement.

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 ...