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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as fentanyl ...

I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Gov. Kathy Hochul ...