Concordia Parish could receive $3 million for the renovation of a jail facility for 17-year-olds as part of $93.6 million the State of Louisiana is poised to spend on new and expanded youth facilities ...

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for a separate murder will be put to death.

The Marshall Project spotlights local officials who see President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation as an answer to ...

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York on Thursday rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with ...

A Texas judge has fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first ...

The Catholic bishops of Louisiana today released the following statement on the plan approved by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution ...

Louisiana State Police arrested two men for unlawful deepfake pornography; using artificial intelligence to create fake videos or pictures of pornography featuring real people.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...