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.

Florida Speaker of the House Daniel Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton gaveled in the third special session of the Legislature this winter on Tuesday, intending to craft a bill further cracking ...

The prosecution in the case of a Chester County man accused of the shooting death of two women and the murder of an unborn child will be allowed to use most, but not all, of the “prior bad acts” the ...