President Donald Trump’s newly installed attorney general is ordering the transfer of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he can ...

Texas executed Death Row inmate Richard Lee Tabler on Thursday ... which is planning to become the second state to use the controversial nitrogen gas method that Alabama began using last year.

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

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

In a plea agreement filed in late January, Benjamin Shoemaker agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy against rights as well as two counts of deprivation of rights.

Cordel Ladon Battle was found with sustained sharp force injuries during a reported assault, according to the Jefferson County Coroner.

A Florida man convicted of murdering a husband and wife during a fishing trip at a remote farm while the couple’s toddler ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Louisiana will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, forging ahead on plans set in motion last spring to carry out death sentences using nitrogen hypoxia.

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.