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

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Editorial: No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty, Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to use nitrogen gas as ...

The decorated death penalty litigator talks about a need to move away from incarceration as the antidote to crime problems ...

One wonders whether Sepulveda will even be taken out of his wheelchair before he is so inhumanely murdered by Gov. Landry and the state.

Alabama prison officials maintain that nitrogen hypoxia is a painless and effective method of execution, despite concerns ...

The Alabama Legislature has wrapped up the second week of the 2025 Legislative Session, with both the House and Senate ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to make it illegal to participate in the death penalty, following news that ...

OSHA issued over 180 citations and millions in fines to this Alabama sawmill, the deadliest workplace in America, but it kept operating.

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The ...