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 ...

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.

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state's ...

The governor’s proposal, which will be formally introduced Tuesday and would require the support of Legislative Republicans, calls for expanding the state’s earned release program for eligible inmates ...

Two Greeley men were recently apprehended outside a federal penitentiary in Louisiana before they could carry out a plan to ...

Jose Francisco Herrera Munoz, 18, and Angel Gonzales Gutierrez, 19, had $112,000 worth of tobacco and $89,500 worth of meth ...

Kelly Ayotte ordered Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks to change agency policy and use “inmates” and not “residents” in all references to those incarcerated in state prison. A former ...