Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of ...

Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died, the state Department of ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row, has died ...

Rocky Gene Baldwin died last month while working in a paint booth at Textron Aviation plant in east Wichita after the ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — 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 ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana after the state struggled to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Hoffman, who was convicted of the rape and murder of 28 ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas. Hoffman, 46, was put to death at the Louisiana State ...

“It went flawless,” Secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety Gary Westcott said. “There was nothing that happened incorrectly.” Nitrogen hypoxia was approved by the state ...

after being administered nitrogen gas, which deprived him of oxygen as it went through his body for 19 minutes, the Associated Press reported. Hoffman was on death row for the murder of 28-year ...