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.

Bombshell new evidence has given Brittany Holberg, 52, a reprieve - a case which a judge in Texas, US, says serves as a ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

Peculiar and violent methods of execution seem to capture the public’s imagination in a way that the death penalty itself does not: A person may support capital punishment in theory but balk at the ...

A judge followed a jury’s recommendation that Eriese Tisdale be put to death for gunning down Sgt. Gary Morales, 35, on Feb.

How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber ...

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...

By 1849, fifteen states were holding private hangings ... shocked), was removed from the chair and returned to his cell. A new death warrant was issued six days later. The Court ruled 5-4 that ...

Court and police documents featuring surveillance images, obtained by NBC Bay Area on Wednesday, shed light on the deadly stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at Santana Row in San Jose earlier this month.

In September 2024, a military court in the DRC sentenced 37 people to death, including three Americans — Tyler Thompson Jr., Marcel Malanga and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun — for their role in ...