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

A 46-year-old Curtis man was sentenced Monday to prison for multiple probation violations stemming from 2023 cases. Cory N. Weeth was sentenced to 24-40 months in the Nebraska Department of ...

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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security ...

A Rock Island man who served time in federal prison on a drug conviction has been sentenced to another term in federal prison after pleading guilty to a firearms charge. During a sentencing ...

He was sentenced to two to four years in state prison. He was committed to Auburn Correctional Facility. While imprisoned at Auburn Correctional Facility, McCarty wrote a letter to Hochul in May 2023.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

GRAND COTEAU, La. (NEWS 15) — Grand Coteau Police Chief Michael Buck said an arrest warrant has been issued for a second suspect for a murder that happened in 2019. Chief Buck identified the suspect ...