The wildest show in the South returns at the Louisiana’s Angola Prison with spring shows set for April. Rodeo action starts ...

The wildest show in the south returns at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with spring shows on Saturday and Sunday, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer.

A death row inmate, Jones spent more than 30 years in one of the nation’s most notorious prisons, San Quentin. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a California couple. Over time, Jones ...

The apparatus used for nitrogen gas executions at Angola prison in Louisiana [Photo: Louisiana state courts] Louisiana ended its 15-year hiatus from state killings with the execution of Jessie ...

Two petitions opposing the death penalty and the use of nitrogen gas were handed over to Gov. Jeff Landry Monday. Together, they had around 35,000 signatures. Jessie Hoffman Jr. scheduled to be ...

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

It’s hard to imagine that anyone could suggest that the great state of Louisiana was soft on crime. In an America that sets ...