A Louisiana death row inmate has been executed using nitrogen gas - marking only the fifth time it has been used on a ...

An Arizona death row inmate who has complained his execution ... But things did not go right,' Michael Radelet, a University of Colorado-Boulder sociologist and death penalty researcher ...

As the US prepares for the execution of four Death Row inmates, the controversial use of nitrogen gas raises ethical concerns ...

In the hours leading up to Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the death penalty from being carried out ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman's death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant. With a 2-1 ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

Brad Sigmon, of South Carolina, was terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" and so was given ...

A 46-year-old man convicted of rape and murder is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana on Tuesday, the first of four executions scheduled this week in the United ...

Brad Sigmon, the first U.S. inmate to be put to death by firing squad in 15 years, has been executed for the double murder of ...

Aaron Gunches, an inmate on Arizona’s death row, has been executed by lethal injection, breaking a nearly two-year moratorium ...

(AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping ... to execute a person on death row in the United States, all ...