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.

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Louisiana Department of Corrections is investigating an inmate suicide at a state prison ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hanson, whose name in Oklahoma court records is listed as John Fitzgerald Hanson, has been serving a life sentence in federal prison in Louisiana ... turn over the inmate to state custody during ...

Bondi orders federal inmate transferred for execution - Donald Trump’s newly installed attorney general is ordering the transfer of a federal inmate so he can be executed ...

Concordia Parish could receive $3 million for the renovation of a jail facility for 17-year-olds as part of $93.6 million the ...

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has approved the transfer of convicted murderer George John Hanson to Oklahoma, ...