Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - A United States district judge sentenced a Louisiana man to over to just over 21 years in prison ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill said this week that Danette Colbert should not have been eligible to have been out on ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 21 years in a federal prison Thursday for trafficking meth through East Texas. Darren ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and legal permanent resident, remains detained inside the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena. Federal immigration authorities apprehended Khalil at ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard received a stiff prison sentence for involvement in mother's murder. In Touch takes a closer look at how ...

Scott Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son, was injured after an interaction with another person at Mule Creek State Prison, officials said Tuesday.

Attorneys for the state and for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. agreed Thursday to unseal a redacted version of Louisiana's new protocol for using nitrogen gas in executions, shedding public ...