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

Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

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

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a lower judge’s ruling Friday. Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted of the ...

Advocates against the death penalty from across the state and country showed up in front of the Governor’s Mansion this ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

The Osaka High Court has ordered a retrial of a lawsuit by two death-row inmates who claim the practice of same-day ...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nathan Gingles, the man accused of killing his wife, her father and an ...

The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...

His defense argued the prosecution “shirked its responsibility” to disclose evidence on time and, in turn, violated the court ...