Amnesty International highlighted the shocking reality of the death penalty all over the world as they called for it to be ...

James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead. View Entire ...

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 ...

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

Under a nitrogen gas execution, the inmate is forced to breath pure nitrogen ... Inmates convicted of capital crimes may be ...

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 ...

Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday. Hoffman ...

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 ...

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Tuesday, all in Alabama. Last year, the method was used to execute Carey Dale Grayson for the killing of Vickie DeBlieux ...