Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Executions using nitrogen gas will soon be legal in Arkansas if the governor signs the legislation into law. House Bill 1489 ...

A federal judge has halted the plan execution of a St. Tammany Parish killer this week, pending a hearing into Louisiana’s ...

A former British prison officer has revealed the three ways death row prisoners "normally" react before their execution. Alex ...