Early voting starts Saturday. The ballot for the March 29 election has four constitutional amendments on courts, taxes, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All of the remaining migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been moved to Louisiana over the last two days, according to a U.S. official.

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

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 ...

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.