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

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

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

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

The state, some prison phone companies and the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association, a powerful lobbying group with major sway in state criminal justice policy, argue the new rules are arbitrary.

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as fentanyl ...

A lieutenant with the Louisiana State Police is in jail after the Baton Rouge Police Department responded to an off-duty ...

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first ...

A Louisiana State Police Lieutenant was arrested by the Baton Rouge Police Department following an off-duty domestic violence ...

The defendant from Wisconsin sent sexually explicit messages to two undercover FBI agents in Louisiana — one posed as an 11-year-old Baton Rouge girl and the other assumed the identity of her ...