NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

It is unacceptable that a company in our state would violate the wishes of its neighbors and help carry out executions for other jurisdictions,” said one legislative champion.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Though Alabama has stepped up its execution rate in recent months, Hammonds still awaits his date with death and indications are that time may be coming in the not-too-distant future.

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama executed a man on Thursday who was convicted in the 1991 rape, robbery and murder of a Birmingham ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...