The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana man who was scheduled to be executed, died Saturday night according to his lawyers, just days after a judge handed down an execution date.

Several other people on death row had execution dates set before the governor paused executions in 2022, and it's unclear if the court may also reset their dates. Prison officials announced a new ...

Two men are set to be executed within an hour of each other in the U.S. on Thursday. Tabler's execution on Thursday comes 20 years after he went on a killing spree in the central Texas city of ...

Joni Ernst of Iowa becomes law. The legislation, titled the “Presidential Allowance Modernization Act,” would provide former presidents with a pension of $200,000 a year and a $200,000 ...

To carry out the execution, nitrogen hypoxia is administered to the inmate through a mask, causing suffocation. Alabama was the only U.S. state with a protocol for this use. Other states that have ...

IT COMES JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION. WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED ...

He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die March 7. On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state’s new ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this execution method. Brad Sigmon, 67, who is ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7.

Friday was Sigmon’s deadline to choose his execution method; if he had not chosen, the default method, the electric chair, would have been imposed. Gerald “Bo” King, Chief of the Capital Habeas Unit ...

(Photo credit: Jarvis DeBerry/Louisiana Illuminator) Christopher Sepulvado, the 81-year-old man who was facing execution next month for the 1992 murder of his stepson, died overnight at Louisiana ...