It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

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

Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing Louisiana to resume executing death row prisoners, with the state potentially carrying out its first executions since 2010 next month with nitrogen gas on the table.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Antoinette Frank, a former New Orleans police officer convicted of a 1995 triple murder, may soon have her execution date scheduled, according to Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill.

Who is on death row in Louisiana? Here are the 57 names and their history. At 81, Sepulvado is the oldest of the 57 people on death row in Louisiana. He was convicted in the 1992 murder of his six ...

In a story published Feb. 11, 2025, about death row cases in Louisiana, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Judge Amy Burford McCartney had not yet approved DeSoto Parish District ...

Since 1976, four out of five death sentences in Louisiana have been overturned on appeal and the majority of people on death row in the state are Black, according to the Promise of Justice ...

On This Week in Louisiana Politics, get the latest on several lawsuits in the state including a New York doctor prescribing an abortion pill for a minor, an LSU professor being kept from teaching ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.