COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s death penalty is under review in a Richland County Circuit Court trial this week with attorneys representing four death-row inmates claiming that the state's capital ...

Forensic pathologists can use autopsies to discern someone’s identity, determine the cause and manner of death, and estimate when death occurred. However, not all autopsies yield clear findings. Legal ...

Gov. Jeff Landry will push lawmakers next month to expand methods the state can use to carry out the death penalty, sources say, as Landry seeks to restart executions following more than a decade in ...

BATON ROUGE, La.BATON ROUGE, La. — In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen ...

A ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court moved the state closer to executing an inmate in a way no state has ever done. Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia method, five years in the making, would use a ...