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 ...

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

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

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

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

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

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

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