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

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.

South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon had his initial final meal request of three KFC buckets denied but still feasted ...

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

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

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

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

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

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...

by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police force ...

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 ...