It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security ...

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state prisons—the rate may now be, at most, 6 cents a minute. That is expected to ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out ...

Angolan TikToker Ana da Silva Miguel, known as Neth Nahara, was released from prison following a presidential pardon granted ...

Michael McClanahan The warrant requests Roy to be put to death on March 19, 2025, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. The execution will take place at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. It ...

The movie follows in the incendiary footsteps of documentaries like Ava DuVernay’s “13th” and Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack’s “The Farm: Angola ... the Alabama State Prison system.

They began with attacks on São Paulo prisons in Luanda, where nationalist prisoners were being held, and together they continued, throughout Angola, in the fight against Portuguese colonial oppression ...