The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr ...

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

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.

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Donald “Don” L. Smith, 81, of Knightstown, passed away Monday, March 10, 2025, at Hancock Regional Hospital in Greenfield. He was born Aug. 20, 1943, in Indianapolis, the son of the late Earl ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction ... In a lone dissent, circuit judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote that the jury did not solely rely ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...