On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

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

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection ...

White and two juvenile accomplices used a crow bar to fatally beat a blind 75-year-old and two other seniors while robbing ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Governor Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill say they want to clear Louisiana’s backlog of death row ...

The Grosses’ granddaughter, Mary Lou Herald, said he not only stile her grandparents but took 40 years of her life by trying ...

A man convicted in 1980 for a triple murder will remain on death row after a federal court upheld his sentence.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - The sentence of Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate has been upheld by a federal appeals court.

Attorney General Russell Coleman announced on Monday that the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has upheld ...