Forty-one bills were signed into law this week, alongside legislation changing the nature of electrical utilities for ...

A federal judge blocked Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over cruel and unusual punishment. The ...

Alabama is set to execute James Osgood in the period between midnight April 24 and 6 a.m. April 25 for the murder of Tracy ...

Arkansas lawmakers during the ninth week of the 95th General Assembly advanced legislation backed by the governor that would ...

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

March 12, 2025 • Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...