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.

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

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.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary personnel will conduct checks on all aspects of the nitrogen system and other apparatus utilized in the protocol prior to the commencement of the execution.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution ...

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

Mary Ann Godawa. Funded through a grant, the division supplied itself with four horses from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, where the officers spent weeks training with their new ...

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