Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

Elliott's mother and husband remembered her as a loving woman who lit up every room. Her killer is set to become the first ...

Japan is the only major industrialised democracy other than the United States to retain capital punishment, a policy that has broad public support. Hakamada is the fifth death row inmate granted a ...

The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate convicted of sexually assaulting and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ...

A Japanese court has awarded ¥217 million ($1.4 million) to Iwao Hakamada, 89, who was acquitted in 2023 after spending more than four decades on death row for a crime he did not commit, The New York ...

March 25 (UPI) --An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple ... Trump on Monday announced the United States will impose a 25% tariff on the ...

Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person on death row in the United States, all in Alabama ... the method is torturous. Each inmate put to death using nitrogen ...