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

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

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

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

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

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

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the ...

Brad Sigmon, a convicted double murderer, has been executed by firing squad in South Carolina. It’s a first for the state ...

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.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carr ...

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 ...