Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in ...

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

"Effective immediately, the prior administration's extreme and categorical policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the ...

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

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...

In a reversal of Los Angeles County’s stance on capital punishment, recently elected District Attorney Nathan Hochman ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman wants us to believe that his decision to resume seeking the death penalty ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced today his office will seek the death penalty only in ...

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records ...

“I am for the death penalty because God was for capital punishment,” said Bill Housley, who oversees 27 churches as the director of missions for the Louisiana Baptist Association. He said he ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Tuesday that his office will seek the death penalty only in exceedingly rare cases, rescinding a directive by his ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...