A federal judge in the Middle District Court of Louisiana granted a motion to expedite consideration and reopening of the case.

President Donald Trump in a sometimes tense meeting Friday with the nation’s governors pressed them to enact the death ...

Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...

Ruben Gutierrez is one of a rare group of death row inmates who have been granted repeated review by the high court.

On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to advance HB 37, a bill which would replace lethal injection with death by firing squad as Idaho’s primary execution method for ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

A bill filed in Arkansas legislature Friday would allow the use of nitrogen gas in methods of executions if it passed as law.

A newly proposed bill in Arkansas would add nitrogen gas as a method to execute death row inmates in the state.

A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...