A man who was serving in federal prison in Louisiana is now in Oklahoma to await execution later this year, but only because ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

Investigators say that Caleb Wilson, 20, a student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., collapsed after being hit with boxing gloves as part of a pledging ritual for Omega Psi Phi.

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana man on death row is pleading with a judge not to be executed by gas just days before he's scheduled for his capital punishment. Jessie Hoffman is expected to be executed ...

An 18-year-old Louisiana State University student from New Jersey was arrested after allegedly uploading child pornography ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge hearing a challenge to Louisiana's death row protocols was in a quandary Friday: How can ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) unveiled today the new Central Louisiana State Hospital (CLSH) in Pineville with a ...

"I remember feeling a flush of anger that the State of Louisiana was giving Bordelon what he wanted, relief from his guilt," ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

Louisiana authorities investigating the death of a 20-year-old Southern University student say they expect multiple people to ...