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 ...

Dr. Joseph Antognini travels across the nation, being paid over $500 an hour by government officials who rely on him to vouch ...

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Tuesday, it's first in 15 years. There are 56 other inmates on death row in the state. Here's where they're from.

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 ...

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 ...

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to ...

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

A federal appellate court this week refused to throw out a ban on housing incarcerated youth at Angola. (Photo credit ... s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state ...

Nolan issued a statement on Sepulvado death: “Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary ... on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has died of an ...

Doctors instead sent him back to Angola ... Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana,” Nolan said in a statement.