Hoffman declined a last meal and did not say any last words before the nitrogen gas began to flow at about 6:21 p.m., according to execution witnesses who spoke at a news conference.

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to an end the extended appeals of five people facing the death penalty.

A man who killed a store clerk during a robbery at an Alabama convenience store in 1997 now knows when he will put to ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.