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 ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

A Lincoln man who went to prison for a motor vehicle homicide in 2020 is going back to prison — this time for 25 to 45 years — for being in possession of a firearm during a drug violation.

An Ohio tractor-trailer driver was sentenced Monday to 3½ years in prison for shooting at another rig on the Thruway in July. Dylan J. Cottingham previously admitted to the shooting, which appear ...

It eventually evolved into the system of prison farms, where prisoners—often poor and disproportionately Black—were put to work growing food for both the prison system and, at times ...