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

The ministry reports the gospel message was recently shared with nearly 800 inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana.

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

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, the site of a former plantation.