Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...
A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...
Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still, she says the two cannot coexist.
The wildest show in the south returns at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with spring shows on Saturday and Sunday, ...
The wildest show in the South returns at the Louisiana’s Angola Prison with spring shows set for April. Rodeo action starts ...
The Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola Prison, is the size of Manhattan and surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River. Unlike the 3,300 inmates awaiting execution nationwide ...
On Tuesday afternoon, a small group of execution opponents held a vigil outside the rural southeast Louisiana prison at Angola, where the state’s executions are carried out. Some passed out ...
Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. Credit: AP/Judi Bottoni The Supreme Court voted 5-4 in declining to step in. Hours earlier at a ...
A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method.