It was an all too familiar scene in Starke during the March 20 execution of Eddie James. Two groups trying to make sense of ...

The families have expressed mixed emotions following the state's first execution in 15 years and shared memories from the ...

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of death row inmate, Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman was sentenced to death after ...

It's been a brilliant day but I'll be in debt for the rest of my life,' joked his friend ... Ben Hansford went the festival 18 years in a row - then stopped going because it was too busy.

An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about whether the process is an unusually cruel and painful method of execution.

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Woods appeal and granted an indefinite stay of his execution. (Miguel Gutierrez ...

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...

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 ...

While his lawyers attempted to have Sigmon be held behind bars for the rest of his life, a jury ultimately decided to sentence him to death. In South Carolina, where Sigmon was being held, death row ...

A killer on death row has become the first US prisoner in 15 years to be executed by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, 67, was granted permission to choose the manner of his execution after comlaining he ...