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

Defense attorneys argue it would be "unheard of in both this state and the nation" for executions to be scheduled before an inmate exhausts all appeals.

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method.

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus.

Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this year. Murrill said she expected the execution to go forward as planned and that ...

A convicted killer scheduled to be gassed to death in Louisiana Tuesday night had his last-minute appeal to save his life was turned down — paving the way for him to become the state’s first execution ...

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

A judge in Baton Rouge dissolved a restraining order, allowing Jessie Hoffman's execution to proceed on Tuesday.

An execution date has been set for an Oklahoma prisoner who is convicted of killing a 77-year-old woman. Oklahoma Attorney ...

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

A state district judge has signed death warrants setting execution dates for two men convicted of murders in Caddo Parish -- ...