Gunches most recently waived his right for a clemency hearing, one of his last chances for a reprieve before his execution by lethal injection on Wednesday. As his execution approaches ...

Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening, his attorneys were hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas.

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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court set April 11 as the execution date for Mikal Mahdi. The execution will take place at 6 p.m. on that date. Mahdi, 41, can choose between lethal injection, electrocution ...

Hoffman's attorneys filed challenges in both state and federal courts on Monday as they sought a judge willing to stop the first Louisiana execution in 15 years. A state judge in East Baton ...

After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution will take place April 11 at 6 p.m. at a prison in the capital of Columbia, the state Supreme Court announced Friday. The court postponed a potential sixth execution ...

(AP) — Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas.