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

While Louisiana stands out as a hotbed for reversed convictions, the state hasn't disciplined a prosecutor for withholding ...

The first execution using the state's electric chair, later dubbed Gruesome Gertie, was in 1941 in Livingston Parish. In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as methods for carrying out death sentences last year. At the time, a group of ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions ... bodies of those executed helped pressure the state to retire its electric chair. It is unclear if and when an execution will take place.

As the deadline for introducing new bills approaches, lawmakers have one eye on affordability but both on wildfires.

Hazardous materials removal was completed at 1,150 properties, including the removal of 274 electric vehicles and bulk energy storage systems. The wildfire debris removal process is considered an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be ...

Brad Sigmon, who used a baseball bat to kill his ex-girlfriend's parents at their home in Greenville County, California, didn ...

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.

Governor Jeff Landry announced Wendy Gentry will serve as the Chair of the Louisiana Housing Corporation. Wendy was first appointed to the board in April 2024. “Wendy has served LHC for nearly a year, ...