A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

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

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

A group of former Alabama state and federal prosecutors, including a former Attorney General and a former U.S. Senator, filed ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 — currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...