Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — 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 carr ...

Back when he was put on death row, the assumed execution method was a lethal injection, but those drugs have been hard to come by in recent years --leading to a backlog on death row and now the ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Wood’s appeal and granted an indefinite stay of his execution. Credit ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. Jordan, now 78 years old, wants the high court ...

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Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...