U.S. Supreme Court blocked Louisiana’s law in 2008; Rep. Bruce Skaug thinks nation’s high court will rule differently ...

The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Jimmie Chris Duncan is on death row in Louisiana for a crime that experts now say may never have happened. His case has ...

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

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 ...

Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...