A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all ...

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

Former Death Row boss Marion "Suge" Knight resoundingly denounced the Snoop Dogg as a lousy music executive and a has-been rapper.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...

Aaron Gunches is scheduled to be executed on March 19. He asked for two nonlegal witnesses to be present for his execution. Arizona said "no." ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, is set to be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 ...