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

Could the death penalty be used as a punishment in Missouri for people charged with first-degree crimes of statutory rape or ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 55-year-old female inmate died early Thursday morning in her cell at the Clay County Detention Center. The cellmate of Wende K. Routh told detention center staff Routh was having ...

An investigation into an inmate who is believed to have passed from natural causes has opened as a separate one draws to a ...

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