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

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the woman in ...

Luigi Mangione’s lawyer said federal prosecutors are still weighing the death penalty over the murder of UnitedHealth Group ...

Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976, with the last execution in 2010.

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

The death penalty has existed across the United States since colonial times, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a national nonprofit organization that collects data on capital ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.