JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM, THE MAN ACCUSED OF A DEADLY KIDNAPING AND MURDER IS IN FEDERAL COURT IN NEW ORLEANS RIGHT NOW. A JUDGE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT HE’S COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. WDSU ...

Early voting starts Saturday. The ballot for the March 29 election has four constitutional amendments on courts, taxes, ...

House Bill 380, by Rep. Bruce Skaug, would allow the death penalty in a new crime: aggravated lewd conduct with children age ...

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Southern University student Caleb Wilson's death was the result of an alleged off-campus Omega Psi Phi hazing incident, Baton ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie Hoffman Jr.'s execution.

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.