Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Louisiana’s attorney general has signed off on an extradition request for Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a New York doctor indicted ...

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

In a story published Feb. 11, 2025, about death row cases in Louisiana, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Judge Amy Burford McCartney had not yet approved DeSoto Parish District ...

A Bienville Parish woman will spend more than two years in federal prison after defrauding federal programs out of more than ...

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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

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 ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

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

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for ...