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

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has praised the state’s pardon and parole board for denying clemency to a death row inmate.

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

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, the bill’s lead sponsor.

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Frazier spent his final hours visiting with his mother, sister and attorneys. He requested a final meal from Taco Bell, ...

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

Without a clemency recommendation from the board, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt cannot commute Grissom's death sentence. Stitt has granted clemency only once in his six years in office, in 2021, to death ...