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 ...

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon, 67, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the other ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who gruesomely killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Friday – the first execution of its ...

A Missouri woman has been charged in connection to the death of her toddler after police said the child was not fed for almost two days. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a press release ...

In South Carolina, the inmate must opt for their method of execution in writing, two weeks before their scheduled death, according to the DPI. In Utah, if a person was sentenced to death before ...

Missouri has 440 people in city or county jails awaiting transfer to the Department of Mental Health. But there are no beds.

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

The federal suit, filed Tuesday, says Katherine Jones' husband was in custody for just over three months when he died on ...

(CNN) — A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that has not been used in the United States in almost 15 years ...

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...

Albany, N.Y. — There is probable cause to believe that as many as nine New York state corrections officers caused, or contributed to, the death Saturday of an inmate at a Central New York state ...