The United States is an ever-changing cultural landscape. As a nation of immigrants, we are a complex patchwork of individuals from ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

In Tuesday's Hoffman v. Westcott, the Court denied a stay of execution; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have granted a stay, but didn't write ...

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott.

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...

Kornpat Kotchabhakdi used to be an atheist who refused to go to a temple with his parents who are Buddhists. When he became a lifestyle editor of a magazine, he became frustrated due to personal and ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday night split 5-4 in denying an execution stay to a Louisiana death row prisoner. One of the ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...