A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

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

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

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 ...

A double-murderer quoted the Bible and called on Christians in his last words before becoming the first US death row inmate ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...

In a final statement read before his death, Sigmon said he wanted his "closing ... “Even though [a firing squad] was used in our very first execution in 1608, we’ve never had this many states ...

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, a convicted murderer, was executed by firing squad in South Carolina, and used his last words to call for the abolition of the death penalty.

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the ...

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.