Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

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

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

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 ...

A Houston woman has filed a lawsuit against iconic West Coast rap label Death Row Records, which featured rappers such as ...

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

On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.

Sky's US partner network NBC News reports that more than 50 people are on Louisiana's death row, and the state's attorney general Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people to be executed ...

The vast majority of US executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 have been performed using lethal injection, although South Carolina executed a man by firing squad ...

Elliott's mother and husband remembered her as a loving woman who lit up every room. Her killer is set to become the first ...

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in ...