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

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court ...

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

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

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Robin “Rocky” Myers has been on Alabama’s death row for more than 30 years. Then, on February 28, he became the first ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this ... which is nearly identical to Alabama’s, Hoffman is to be strapped to a ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...