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

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US ... said Sigmon's last meal was four pieces of fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits, cheesecake and ...

Brad Sigmon bludgeoned his then-girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat in a crazed act of violence 23 years ago, ...

Severance ’s use of green could have multiple interpretations. As seen in the goat room, it could indicate flourishing growth ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

Towns returned to the team two days later after funeral services, but Draymond Green apparently had heard a different story about why Towns was absent. The Knicks were hosting the Golden State ...

This is how Isaiah Kelley has faced his father's death and homelessness while helping Highland Park basketball succeed during ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi ...