Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten.

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

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state to execute Robin “Rocky” Myers, despite a juror on his case ...

Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

Recent changes to the legal process in Alabama makes it more difficult to challenge such cases, the report states.

One wonders whether Sepulveda will even be taken out of his wheelchair before he is so inhumanely murdered by Gov. Landry and ...

Louisiana hasn’t imposed the death penalty since 2010 ... When used for the first time on a human last year, in Alabama, The Associated Press reported that convict Kenneth Eugene Smith ...

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

The decorated death penalty litigator talks about a need to move away from incarceration as the antidote to crime problems ...