Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out ...

Louisiana has adopted nitrogen hypoxia as a new execution method, following Alabama’s lead. Gov. Landry says it’s time for ...

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said it’s “unfortunate” that Alabama is set to execute a Detroit native sentenced for murder ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday.

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama executed a man on Thursday who was convicted in the 1991 rape, robbery and murder of a Birmingham ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

An Alabama death row inmate was executed Feb. 6 by nitrogen hypoxia at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, just outside ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.