Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state's use of nitrogen gas to put ...

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith — admitting that correction officials were not following their own execution protocols — the state has announced a ...

Read full article: Palm Coast woman denied bond after murder charge upgrade in infant death case HOUSTON – Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state ...

The U.S. Supreme Court took up a constitutional challenge to lethal injections Monday, agreeing to decide how far states must go to reduce the risk of excruciating pain during an execution. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing ...

Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen executions ...

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, ...

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HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...