Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years.

Arizona resumed executions Wednesday morning, after a 2-year moratorium that was prompted by three botched executions ...

Aaron Gunches, who had dropped legal efforts to halt his execution, was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of Ted Price, ...

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

Kiera Riley, courts and education reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times, reports on the execution of Aaron Gunches as his ...

Inside a state prison building, witnesses watched Arizona execute Aaron Gunches without the troubles of the past.

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the US after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

In the lethal injection chamber, media witnesses said they saw a restraint team secure his body to a gurney without incident. He was also hooked up to a heart monitor. A medical team then entered ...

An Oklahoma man is scheduled to be executed for fatally shooting a woman during a home-invasion robbery 20 years ago.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

in which an inmate has a deadly mixture of drugs injected into their bodies as they are strapped to a gurney. But throughout its use, lethal injection has been plagued by problems, including ...