Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

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 ...

Doctors had recommended hospice care, but he was instead returned to Angola Prison for execution. Soon after Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill released statement saying, “Justice should ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana ... "Christopher Sepulvado's death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the ...

After years of juvenile detention, a repeat offender now faces adult prison time—raising questions about the system’s failures and ignored warning signs.

Sepulvado had been housed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum-security lockup in the United States and the site of the nation’s longest-running prison rodeo.

The reporting showed how a spiderweb of brands and products tied to prison labor ends up in grocery ... McCormick have been ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died at approximately 8:45 p.m. local time Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola ... He said Sepulvado died in the prison infirmary.