BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana officials have unsealed a redacted version of the state’s execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, providing the first public look at how the state plans ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...

Louisiana's recent push to resume executions has thrust religious opposition to the forefront, energizing a coalition of people from different faiths who oppose the state's plan to carry out death ...

When convicted murderer Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith was executed early last year in Alabama, witnesses reported that the 58-year-old prisoner “shook and writhed” for at least four minutes as deadly ...