Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

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

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

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 ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola will carry out the executions ... medical monitors will be attached to the inmate to evaluate the relevant vital signs," the summary says.

In an execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate's face is covered by ... Staff at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where the executions will be carried out, will check all aspects ...

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.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for ...

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