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

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

Arizona is set to carry out its first execution since 2022. Death row inmate Aaron Gunches is set to die by lethal injection ...

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

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, who was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a ...

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though ... ruling that it could cause the inmate "pain and terror" and violate his constitutional rights. Here's what you need to ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr was denied the chance to carry out a Buddhist ritual in this final moments after declining to take part in ...

The controversial method is set to be used on convicted killer Jessie Hoffman despite his legal team's protests against it ...

It was there that he raped Elliott before killing her in an execution-style murder. Her body wasn't discovered for two days.

Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate will remain there after a court upheld his sentence of capital punishment from more than 40 years ago.