Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

ATMORE, ALA – Demetrius Terrence Frazier, a Michigan man on Alabama death row, became the first person executed while in the ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the ...

The Louisiana governor and attorney general are in favor of getting the execution process moving again after executions were ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

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

The Louisiana Legislature approved the use of nitrogen gas executions last year, following Alabama's implementation of the ...

With the support of Governor Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill signaled the state is ready to resume executions.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — After 15 years, Louisiana has resumed executions and joined three other states in a controversial new method. “Louisiana has decided that when you take a life in certain ...