The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has ...

Richard Jordan's execution is pending a response from the U.S. Supreme Court to his petition for review. Mississippi has executed 23 people since the nationwide moratorium on executions was lifted ...

Smith's execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on May 22. Prison staff, in these final two days, are inspecting all rooms and equipment in the capital punishment unit. That includes Smith's ...

The executions are scheduled as early as May. The four people the court set execution dates for were scheduled to die before capital punishment was paused in Tennessee in 2022. The Tennessee ...

Louisiana is scheduled to use nitrogen gas in an execution for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the expected execution of Jessie Hoffman, Jr., age 46. Louisiana state law ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The man scheduled for execution this month in Tennessee has declined to choose an execution method, which is what stopped executions in 2022. Oscar Franklin Smith is ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June 25 execution date. Jordan was sentenced to death for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. His attorneys are ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court has set May 20, 2025, as the execution date for the man who murdered Beech Grove Police Ofc. Bill Toney in 2000. Benjamin Ritchie was convicted in 2002, and ...