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

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

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.

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

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul reitterated her support Thursday for embattled New Paltz doctor Maggie Carpenter after receiving an ...

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

True crime lovers and macabre enthusiasts are often interested in topics regarding serial killers. Does Louisiana have a history of serial killers?

Louisiana indicted Carpenter on charges that she violated the state’s near-total abortion ban, which allows physicians ...