Governor Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill say they want to clear Louisiana’s backlog of death row ...

A 53-year-old man convicted of murder was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, becoming the third person executed in ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

No physical evidence tied Kenneth Hartley to the 1991 kidnap/murder of Gino Mayhew, 17. Instead, prosecutor George Bateh ...

A former British prison officer has revealed the three ways death row prisoners "normally" react before their execution. Alex ...

Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top ...

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

Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method ...