Delivering on a campaign promise, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors to seek capital ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out ...

Anti-death penalty advocates and representatives from many faiths called for an end to executions in Louisiana and wished ...

The legal team for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman has filed a flurry of last-minute court challenges in hopes of stopping ...

Snoop Dogg is rumored to be steering Death Row Records toward a global renaissance, looking beyond the West Coast to sign international artists. Snoop Dogg and global expansion are one and the same.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of death row inmate, Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman was sentenced to death after ...

An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about whether the process is an unusually cruel and painful method of execution.

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Woods appeal and granted an indefinite stay ...

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. Randall County prosecutors relied heavily on testimony from a jail inmate, Vickie Marie Kirkpatrick, who was working as a confidential informant for the ...