“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Team, Gendron's attorneys argue "The government's decision to seek the death penalty against Payton Gendron is arbitrary." ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Alim Braxton, aka Michael Jerome Braxton, has a lot to say about life, death, and finding purpose. His message is urgent ...

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...

Advocates against the death penalty from across the state and country showed up in front of the Governor’s Mansion this ...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nathan Gingles, the man accused of killing his wife, her father and an ...

The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...

His defense argued the prosecution “shirked its responsibility” to disclose evidence on time and, in turn, violated the court ...