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

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

If the governor is squeamish about the firing squad, perhaps he should be squeamish about the death penalty. | Opinion ...

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

Charles Manson died in November 2017 while serving nine life sentences for the horrific murders he orchestrated in 1969. Here ...

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their child in 2017.

If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...