More states are struggling to obtain the more common lethal injection drugs. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving to ...

Caddo Parish DA’s Office files to have 2 death row inmates executed. The state supreme court ruled the district court must ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare ...

Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row, has died ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Recent executions using nitrogen gas and firing squads have sparked controversy over their potential cruelty. Florida allows executions by lethal injection or electrocution, with the inmate ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year ...

Louisiana put a condemned man to death using nitrogen gas in its first execution since 2010, making it only the second state to administer the controversial method. The execution of Jessie Hoffman ...

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, using nitrogen gas for the first time amid Catholic criticism of both the death penalty itself and the mode of execution.