Authorities have removed U.S. immigrants from detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as a federal court in Washington weighs ...

He is not a killer, but the state of Louisiana is determined to execute Patrick Kennedy for his crime. The New Orleans native faces that reality as he sits on death row at Louisiana's maximum security ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and legal permanent resident, remains detained inside the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena. Federal immigration authorities apprehended Khalil at ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked Louisiana's first execution in 15 years after lawyers for the man argued nitrogen hypoxia ...