Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

An inmate on South Carolina's death row has chosen to die on March 7 by firing squad, his lawyer said Friday. Brad Sigmon, 67 ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

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

then the gas chamber, and, finally, lethal injection.” Death penalty supporters may cling to that belief—even, as has been the case with nitrogen hypoxia, when executions do not go smoothly ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

"Once escorted to the death chamber, medical monitors will be attached ... Death Sentences includes the procedures for the nitrogen hypoxia method recently approved by the Louisiana Legislature ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for ...