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

Airgas, a nitrogen and oxygen supplier, is considering action against Louisiana over potential misuse of its products during Jessie Hoffman's execution ...

Recent executions using nitrogen gas and firing squads have sparked controversy over their potential cruelty. Florida allows executions by lethal injection or electrocution, with the inmate ...

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 ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...