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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...

PATIENT AND SEVERAL OTHERS. LOUISIANA IS ONE STEP CLOSER NOW TO BECOMING THE SECOND STATE TO EXECUTE SOMEONE USING NITROGEN HYPOXIA GAS. SO FAR, ONLY ALABAMA HAS DONE SO, BUT THREE OTHER STATES ...

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 ...

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

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41.