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

Arizona has executed a 53-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and murdering his girlfriend's former partner in 2002, marking ...

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

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

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 ...

Hoffman, Sepulvado and seven other inmates are plaintiffs in a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Louisiana's death penalty ... a statement to USA TODAY when ...

USA TODAY is looking back at who Elliott was and what happened her. 'I miss her so much': Remembering Molly Elliott, killed by Louisiana Death Row inmate Their killer is facing execution by firing ...

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

Nitrogen gas has been used just four times to execute a person in the United States — all in Alabama ... at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this year.