The Office of State Fire Marshal welcomes Ken Pastorick, the agency’s new Director of Public Affairs. “I’m excited about having Ken as part of our team, he brings a tremendous amount of public ...

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 ...

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

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.

One wonders whether Sepulveda will even be taken out of his wheelchair before he is so inhumanely murdered by Gov. Landry and ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

More than 100 people were evacuated as flames ripped through a popular luxury hotel and restaurant in central London on Friday. “Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters tackled a fire at ...

the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said. Chiltern Firehouse was partially destroyed by the Valentine's Day fire, which began when burning wood fell from the oven, "igniting the void between the ...

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 ...

She became the only woman in the state to run a county penitentiary that day when she was sworn in at a ceremony at the Jamesville Correctional Facility. If you purchase a product or register for ...

(WBAY) - Governor Evers announced on Sunday a $500 million plan for the Department of Corrections that includes ... Institution turned into a state-of-the-art medium security, vocational village ...