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

In an execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate's face is covered ... which also added electrocution to the list of state-sanctioned execution methods. Louisiana stopped using electrocution ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented a protocol allowing sentences for death row inmates to be carried out using the nitrogen hypoxia method, Gov.

A spokesperson for Louisiana's attorney general said "four to five" condemned prisoners are eligible to be executed. But that ...

As Louisiana struggled to obtain proper lethal injection drugs, the state ultimately ... Louisiana expanded its list of execution methods, attorneys for the death row inmates filed a motion ...

The Harris County Jail also houses 350 inmates who are on a waiting list for the state’s overwhelmed mental ... operated jails in Mississippi and Louisiana. Harris County’s efforts led to ...

In this legal roundup, learn about a bizarre Cleveland County situation, new guidance on airsoft guns and other updates from ...