The attorney general’s office has identified 22 individuals on death row who have exhausted their appeals and are among those ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection ...

White and two juvenile accomplices used a crow bar to fatally beat a blind 75-year-old and two other seniors while robbing ...

A man convicted in 1980 for a triple murder will remain on death row after a federal court upheld his sentence.

The U.S. Department of Justice, under former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, halted the use of pentobarbital for federal death row inmates in January after it was unable to determine whethe ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Attorney General Russell Coleman announced on Monday that the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has upheld ...