A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

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

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

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

A Council Bluffs man who avoided the gallows in 1965 after killing a 13-year-old in a "wild shooting spree" died in state custody last week. Leon Tice Jr. was pronounced dead at 11:14 a.m. last ...

Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of Eastern State Penitentiary and how it was different than other prisons at the time.

Opening remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the State Visit by H.E. Joao Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola Your Excellency Joao Lourenço, President of the Republic of ...

On the act, which took place under the motto 'Angola 50 years, preserving and valuing the achievements achieved, building a better future,' also said the preservation of public goods. About the ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as a homicide, according to CDCR. Officers were conducting ...

John Thomas Wadlinger Jr., 32, of Bensalem, is headed to state prison for 26 to 56 years for causing the crash that killed a Connecticut couple last February while he was under the influence of ...

For more details, please refer to the SCI Pittsburgh Feasibility Study and the accompanying FAQs Tom Tripoli is on a mission to halt the demolition of the former Western Penitentiary along the ...