Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept ...

wrote that Hunt has now been on death row longer than Lane was alive. Alabama last year became the first state to carry out an execution with nitrogen gas. Nitrogen has now been used in five ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

Governor Ivey announced that Alabama inmate, David Lee Roberts, will be executed by nitrogen hypoxia this summer, which makes ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Thomas Lee Gudinas had been on death row at Florida State Prison near Starke since his conviction in 1995 of the rape and ...

It was the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas. The execution method involves forcing an inmate to breathe pure nitrogen gas, depriving them of the oxygen needed to stay alive.

Gudinas was found guilty in 1995 of the rape and murder of Michelle McGrath. The court heard that the young woman's body, ...

A man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been executed in Mississippi. Richard Gerald Jordan died by lethal ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...