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

Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...

Editorial: No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty, Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to use nitrogen gas as ...

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

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

A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen to die by firing squad. The convicted killer is scheduled to be executed on March 7, and it would be the first execution by firing squad in the state.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins has taken his support for the death penalty in Ohio to the new office of U.S.

The group Jews Against Gassing gathered on the steps of the Touro Synagogue to protest against the state’s plan to execute ...

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.

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

The Alabama Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state to execute Robin “Rocky” Myers, despite a juror on his case ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn why Governor Landry established protocols to use nitrogen gas to carry out the death ...