HOUSTON — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...

Police arrest second suspect in 4-year-old's shooting on Van Buren Avenue A second person was arrested Friday in connection to the homicide of a 4-year-old on Van Buren Aveneue in North Charleston, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A newly proposed bill by Republican lawmakers in Arkansas is looking to add nitrogen gas to the methods of execution for death row inmates. House Bill 1489 would add the gas to the ...

Seeing some images of olden times may seem somewhat cartoonish. Because these events happened a long time ago, they can appear to be overly simplified and unrealistic. However, what isn’t amusing at ...

HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

A federal judge has reopened a long-running court case that could put Louisiana's plans on hold to execute death row inmates Jessie Hoffman and Christopher Sepulvado next month. U.S. District Judge ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...