Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas ...

Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom for a 2005 murder, marking the state's first execution of the year amid a week of multiple ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections may have used compressed gas from a Pennsylvania company in the March ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with the Supreme Court majority on a decision for a stay of execution for the first time this term.

Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was put to death Thursday, decades after killing a 23-year-old woman and wounding her friend ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas.

Jessie Hoffman was executed on March 18 after a hard-fought legal battle went all the way to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday evening, March 18, the state of Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr., putting him to death with nitrogen gas.

The state executed convicted murderer-rapist Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night (March 18). Hoffman was the first inmate executed in Louisiana in the past 15 years and the first put to death by ...

Aaron Gunches, 53, pleaded guilty to killing his then-girlfriend’s ex-husband in 2002. He provided no defense at trial and ...