A Tennessee death row prisoner declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, saying he was protesting issues with medical care, the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

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Gunches wants to die. But controversy surrounds execution methods in Arizona, which hasn’t killed a prisoner since 2022.

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Frazier’s final words before being executed were, “Detroit strong”, “I love everybody on Death Row,” and “Let’s go ... executions with nitrogen gas, with three inmates put to death with the new method ...