Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten. Whitten was set to testify against Whitehead in an upcoming theft trial, ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

All but one of the executions were by lethal injection, with Demetrius Terrence Frazier -- who was executed by Alabama ... to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have ...

The Louisiana governor and attorney general are in favor of getting the execution process moving again after executions were ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

made an agreement to extradite Frazier to Alabama death row in November 2011. Nitrogen hypoxia is an execution method in which the inmate breathes in pure nitrogen gas through a mask ...