A convicted child molester has been released from a Missouri prison despite pleas from the people he molested.

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.

A Baton Rouge man convicted of molesting an 8-year-old boy faces a mandatory life sentence Thursday when he's scheduled to ...

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

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

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

The Marshall Project spotlights local officials who see President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation as an answer to their budget woes.

Richard Lee Tabler was condemned for the Thanksgiving 2004 shooting deaths of Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni, 28, and Haitham Zayed, ...

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York on Thursday rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with ...

A Texas judge has fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has filed a lawsuit against the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office over its so-called ...