It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

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

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

“I told one of my grandmas the other day you grieve the people you knew,” she added ... The jury voted 11-1 to recommend the death penalty in the killings, to which the trial judge agreed.

Alabama has executed four people by nitrogen hypoxia ... Last year, after Louisiana expanded its list of execution methods, attorneys for the death row inmates filed a motion for relief from ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week. “The death penalty is not effective ...

and the number of people on death row, about 2,250. Public support for the death penalty, meanwhile, remained at a five-decade low, 53%. But the report’s most important finding for the future of ...

Bondi's memorandum ordered prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in cases involving "the murder of a law-enforcement officer, or a capital crime by an alien illegally present in the United States.