Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for a separate murder will be put to death.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that the federal government has agreed to transfer a convicted murderer to Oklahoma to be executed.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced an agreement to transfer a convicted murderer from a federal prison in Louisiana to Oklahoma to carry out his execution.

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and effective manner.

Landry approved the bill last year in a special session expanding death row executions methods. “For too long, Louisiana has failed to uphold the promises made to victims of our State’s most ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions ... 57 people currently sit on death row, according to Cecelia Kappel of the Capital Appeals Project, a nonprofit law firm that represents all ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

As the investigation continues into the death of a Kansas City reporter, who was in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl LIX, Jefferson Parish prosecutors want the woman who may have a connection to ...