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.

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

The ministry reports the gospel message was recently shared with nearly 800 inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana.

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

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

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

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

(KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy ... and 9 p.m. The execution will take place at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ...

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

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are trying to make it a right — rather than a privilege — for inmates in the state’s prisons to receive visitation while incarcerated. Now, inmates in Colorado ...

The type of crime committed, the location of the facility, the staffing, and the fellow inmates all contribute to how a prison experience can go from rather good to very ugly indeed. “ ...