A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

A convicted killer in South Carolina who became the first death row inmate in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 ...

In an hour-long interview with USA TODAY at the state’s Death Row ... by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

a rare execution method in the United States that experts say may be making a comeback in more states as lethal injection drugs become harder to obtain. Death row inmates in the state can choose ...

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though ... find a single shred of evidence of anything,” Wood told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison ...