Legal battle continues over Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution
A federal judge blocked Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over cruel and unusual punishment. The ...
Attorneys: South Carolina sets execution date for next death row inmate
The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg law enforcement officer in 2004 has learned the date of ...
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Florida Courts Reject Appeals From Edward James, Execution Set For Next Week
The Florida Supreme Court and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have denied attempts to block the scheduled March 20th ...
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Catholic bishop warns against ‘culture of death’ as Idaho backs firing squad executions
Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...
Brief calling for new trial for Toforest Johnson filed by former Alabama Attorney General, US Senator
A group of former Alabama state and federal prosecutors, including a former Attorney General and a former U.S. Senator, filed ...
Idaho will be only state with firing squad as main execution method, after governor signs bill
In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...
Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate's murder conviction
State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
A look at the status of US executions in 2025
Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...
Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
Louisiana death row inmate pushes against nitrous hypoxia execution
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.