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 ...

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.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn’t kill an 85-year-old woman during a home ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher ...