Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will have to wait a ...

Louisiana's history with the death penalty is also closely tied to the history of capital punishment in the U.S., being at the center of some of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark death penalty cases.

Louisiana’s oldest death row inmate dies 3 weeks before he was to be state’s first execution in 15 years - “Give me a little time,” Christopher Sepulvado’s ex, who also served time for ...

Nearly all of the 57 people on Louisiana's death row have asked Gov. John Bel Edwards to spare their lives, a historic request made after Edwards broke his silence on ...

This comes after a bill aimed at abolishing the death penalty in Louisiana failed during the 2023 legislative session. There are currently 57 inmates on death row in Louisiana.

BATON ROUGE, La. — For the first time, Louisiana is on the precipice of emptying death row. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is using his clemency power to help advance a mass request for ...

There are currently 57 inmates on death row in Louisiana. According to Francis Abbott, the executive director of the Louisiana Board of Pardons & Committee on Parole, the board received the 51 ...

With dozens of Louisiana death row inmates awaiting executions that may never happen, the state Department of Corrections has agreed to a series of court-ordered changes to make the housing unit ...

State Rep. Terry Landry, D-New Iberia, right, and state Sen. JP Morrell, D-New Orleans, discuss a bill that would let citizens vote on abolishing the death penalty in Louisiana. Senate Bill 112 ...

Since 1722, more than 650 people have been executed under the death penalty in Louisiana, with many of those occurring well before Louisiana became a U.S. territory and became a state, according ...

Crime Louisiana death row inmate executed in state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia Jessie Hoffman was executed for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of 28-year-old Mollie Elliott.

Louisiana is one of 27 states where the death penalty still exists, though it's been 13 years since a prisoner was executed. The state last carried out an execution on January 7, 2010, putting ...