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

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.

We refuse to stand by while Louisiana resurrects the racist cruelties of the past, echoing the brutal injustices of lynching and slavery, especially offensive during Black History month ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death ...

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

Jeff Landry said Louisiana will soon resume death penalty executions after the state corrections agency implemented ... especially offensive during Black History month, a month meant to honor ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has adopted new execution protocols, including the use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of carrying out death sentences, Gov. Jeff Landry ...

A Rapides Parish man could be the first person Louisiana puts to death in 15 years after the district attorney there obtained ...

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