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.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Nearly all death row inmates in Louisiana have submitted applications for commutations of their sentences Tuesday, according to the executive director of the Louisiana Board ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Why 1st death row killing in 15 years is off, even as Louisiana plans to resume executions BY JOHN SIMERMAN and MEGHAN FRIEDMANN | Staff writers Feb 11, 2025 Updated Feb 11, 2025 4 min to read ...

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 ...

Angola's death row is divided into six tiers, each housing 12 to 13 men, with a total of 72 inmates. Under the previous system, two inmates were never allowed out of their cells together.

Louisiana has unsealed its execution protocol as attorneys for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman seek to halt his March 18 execution, arguing the state’s nitrogen gas method is unconstitutional.

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.