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 ...

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

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

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

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

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him severe pain.

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to his medical history and proposed a firing squad as an alternative.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him.

Indonesia and France signed an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences. "What we signed today is an agreement between ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...