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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state's Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the ...

Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now Alabama’s attorney general wants to help other ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A death penalty bill that would allow Louisiana to use the electric chair and deadly gas as execution methods, passed in the senate on Thursday, bringing the law one step closer to ...

South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state's high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more than a ...

Every week until November 2, the Owasso Reporter will cover each of the seven state question in detail and present both sides of the issue to give citizens a chance to decide for themselves whether to ...