A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

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

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

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

Governor Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state has approved a new method to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas. This decision comes after the Louisiana Legislature passed a law ...

A spokesperson for Louisiana's attorney general said "four to five" condemned prisoners are eligible to be executed. But that ...

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Attorneys for those on death row and death penalty opponents have called the method cruel. All of the men executed in Alabama using nitrogen shook or gasped to varying degrees on the gurney as ...

State legislators last year authorized nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental procedure tried just four times before in the nation's recorded history, as a means to execute death row prisoners.