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.

Students in the Academy of Legal Studies at Northside High received a powerful lesson on Tuesday, February 18. They learned ...

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 ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for Edward James, 63, on Tuesday. James is scheduled to be executed on March 20 at Florida State Prison.

A six-term Republican state legislator and committee chairman said he deleted his share of a post on the X social media platform that referred to an upcoming summit of moderate political leaders a ...

Deputy County Clerk Alexander McDougall was sentenced to one to four years in state prison last month after confessing to stealing more than $320,000 in public money from Erie County government.