Officials say one person was hospitalized after a shooting in the University City area of Charlotte early Sunday morning.

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

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

The country’s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now been used to execute four people in the state. If Hoffman’s execution doesn’t get halted, Louisiana ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The first execution by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years is set to happen. Brad Sigmon was sentenced for ...

Jeremiah T. Byrd’s defense is asking the judge handling Byrd’s criminal case to rule that all of Byrd’s statements are inadmissible at trial. In particular, Byrd’s defense attorney is asking Daviess ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...

Texas plans to execute Wood in March. George Hall says police encouraged him to lie about Wood confessing six murders to him.

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.

Several Supreme Court justices worried that a low-profile death penalty appeal could upend fundamental judicial principles.