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

Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Two US states have executed convicted murderers, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this week.

In a week marked by controversy, two US states executed four convicted murderers, reigniting the debate over capital ...

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

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

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

Edward James, 63, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison outside Starke.

An Oklahoma man convicted of killing a woman during a home robbery was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, the ...

Edward James was put to death in Raiford, Florida, by lethal injection on Thursday, marking the fourth execution in the US ...