The Arizona State Supreme Court was scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss issuing a death warrant amid concerns about Arizona's execution protocols.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Connecticut death penalty opponents want lawmakers to bar corporations in the state from making drugs or devices used in ...

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and ...

The clock has been reset for a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for 42 years after state legislators defeated an ...

Connecticut companies would be banned from selling drugs used in capital punishment under bill opposed by state hospitals.

David Duncan, a meticulous retired judge, led an inquest into Arizona's execution protocols -- until it was subverted by ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery ...

First Baptist Arlington’s senior pastor said his role was to support families affected by the murder of one of the church's ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem State. But his remedy — replacing death by lethal injection with a firing ...