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

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans ...

Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the ...

Prosecutors have been given Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's medical and mental health records, newly unsealed ...

A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia on drug offences will have to serve 30 years in jail after being repatriated last week, a French court ruled Wednesday. The Indonesian ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

The death penalty has been withdrawn in the case of a Kentucky mom charged in her daughter’s death. A judge signed an order ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death penalty executions.

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...