Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Heather Mitchell shows a photograph of her husband Marcus Mitchell who has been on death row in Raleigh’s Central Prison for 27 years. He has long been an advocate for death row inmates ...

Cocaine trafficker Lindsay Sandiford, 67, is off-loading her gear to other inmates inside Bali's hell-hole Kerobokan jail ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years ... Attorney's Office approached multiple inmates to question them about Holberg, offering them a deal in exchange for testimony. Kirkpatrick, who was placed ...

Holberg has been on death row for ... multiple inmates to question them about Holberg, offering them a deal in exchange for testimony. Kirkpatrick, who was placed in the same cell as Holberg ...

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them ... 47-year-old pachinko parlor employee inside a car parked on a mountain in Miyagi ...

In Tennessee, death row inmates who committed the offense before December 31, 1998 can select to be executed through electrocution by written waiver. Only eight states - Alabama, Arizona ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

A death row inmate in Louisiana 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 humane method.