A man on death row is facing execution tonight by use of a controversial nitrogen gas which the same state has banned for killing pet cats and dogs. Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to death in 1996 ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this year. Murrill said she expected the execution to go forward as planned and that ...

The Nigerian Correctional Service has disclosed that no fewer than 3,688 prisoners are on death row across its various facilities in the country. The acting Comptroller General of the NCoS ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

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.

Amarillo Globe-USA TODAY NETWORK The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals court ruled that she received an ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story included Jarrell Neal as a death row inmate. Neal's death sentence was thrown out by an appeals court in 2023. Louisiana is set to execute its first ...

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has revealed that the number of prisoners on death row had risen from 3,590 in September 2024 to 3,688 in March 2025, representing a 2.73 percent increase ...

Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person on death row in the United States, all in Alabama — which is the only other state where there is a protocol for the specific ...

Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate will remain there after a court upheld his sentence of capital punishment from more than 40 years ago. Karu Gene White’s most recent appeal to overturn ...