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

Editorial: No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty, Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to use nitrogen gas as ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

On This Week in Louisiana Politics, get the latest on several lawsuits in the state including a New York doctor prescribing ...

The group Jews Against Gassing say Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to execute people using nitrogen gas is a "painful echo" of the ...

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s been 15 years since anyone on death row in Louisiana was executed. That could change next month. The first death sentence since 2010 is set to be carried out on Monday, ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

Louisiana has not executed anyone in 15 years. Now, under a pair of death warrants signed this week, the state could soon execute two people back-to-back. Judges in St. Tammany Parish and DeSoto ...