Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The legislation ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and effective manner.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...