Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Two men on Mississippi's death row were told the state Supreme Court would not rehear arguments in their cases.

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

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

Nine men on death row in Tennessee have filed a legal challenge against the state’s newly-adopted lethal injection protocol, ...

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US ...

Richard Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row for 47 years. He is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw.