BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

Dr. Joseph Antognini travels across the nation, being paid over $500 an hour by government officials who rely on him to vouch ...

Men incarcerated on death row in Tennessee are suing the state over its lethal injection protocol, calling it a violation of ...

The suit claims the state’s lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Tuesday, it's first in 15 years. There are 56 other inmates on death row in the state. Here's where they're from.

Jessie Hoffman’s execution was cleared by a federal appeals court that vacated a preliminary injunction by a lower court.

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

For the first time in its modern history, South Carolina has executed a prisoner by firing squad. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

A group of nine men on Tennessee's death row filed suit in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday, challenging the use of ...

The condemned person is usually bound to a gurney and a member of the execution team places numerous heart monitors in the ...