While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

House Bill 270, which received preliminary approval this week by the House Judiciary Committee, would allow the inmate 14 days to choose their method of death. If the inmate failed to meet that ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed the death warrant for Glen Rogers, a man who was convicted of murdering a woman in a Tampa hotel room 30 years ago.

Some 13 years on from that landmark case, a Louisiana teenager accused of murder made headlines when he survived a ...

Now, the inmate is once again facing the possibility of execution in Louisiana. 67-year-old Thomas Sanders was convicted by a federal judge of kidnapping and murdering Las Vegas 12-year-old Lexis ...

Overall, capital punishment proposals retain a heightened significance as executions move beyond the theoretical for the more than 50 people still locked up on Louisiana's death row. A 15-year ...

NEW ORLEANS — A consumer advocacy group says the state could soon dismantle a program set to help lower electric bills across the state. This as the Louisiana Public Service Commission holds a ...

Louisiana residents pay low “rates” for electricity, but electric bills are high — and ... Francis, the commission's chair, added the item to the agenda a couple days before the meeting ...

(The Center Square) – For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday night in Columbia less than four minutes after ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.