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.

WARREN — Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins is urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to two letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution methods, potentially delaying the executions of two ...

NEW ORLEANS — A dormant federal lawsuit blocking executions in Louisiana was reopened Friday in light of two executions being ...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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