[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...

"Such pointless cruelty in scheduling his execution in the face of all this overlooked the hard work Chris did over his decades in prison to confront the harm he has caused, to become a better ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher ...

Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana man who was scheduled to be executed, died Saturday night according to his lawyers, just days after a judge handed down an execution date.

FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) Advertisement ...

His attorneys said doctors had recommended Sepulvado for hospice care days before DeSoto Parish District Attorney Charles Adams secured a judge's signature this month on an execution warrant.

Brad Sigmon, who is scheduled to be executed next month, has chosen an execution method that hasn't been implemented in the US since 2010 - so what will happen? In 2001, Sigmon was convicted of the ...

An inmate's attorney has argued why he's chosen 'as best he can' an execution method despite the brutal process not having been used for 15 years. Brad Sigmon is set to be executed next month after ...