Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still, she says the two cannot coexist.

“Tonight, the state of Louisiana took the life of Jessie Hoffman ... execution was carried out at the infamous Angola State Penitentiary. The prison—known as “Alcatraz of the South ...

dead at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at Angola. He inhaled pure nitrogen ... the choice between the death penalty and life in prison without parole. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections ...

The wildest show in the south returns at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with spring shows on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27 in St. Francisville. News Today's news ...

He declined a final meal at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the prison commonly referred to as Angola — and did not ... State of Louisiana took the life of Jessie Hoffman, a man who was ...

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.

At the time of the crime, Hoffman was 18 and has since spent much of his adult life at the penitentiary in rural southeast Louisiana ... On Tuesday afternoon, a small group of execution opponents held ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...