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 ...

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.

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

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 ...

The Catholic bishops of Louisiana today released the following statement on the plan approved by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ...

Louisiana seems poised to spend $93.6 million on new and expanded youth jails and prisons over the next five months to allow more minors to be sentenced to time behind bars.

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

Louisiana State Police arrested two men for unlawful deepfake pornography; using artificial intelligence to create fake ...