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

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.

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security ...

A former psychiatric nurse practitioner has been placed on probation after serving less than half of his prison sentence, and others in his profession are upset about his early release.

An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as fentanyl ...

A lieutenant with the Louisiana State Police is in jail after the Baton Rouge Police Department responded to an off-duty ...

A lieutenant with the Louisiana Sate Police has been arrested in an off-duty domestic violence incident, the agency said.

A Louisiana State Police Lieutenant was arrested by the Baton Rouge Police Department following an off-duty domestic violence ...