Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

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.

He is not a killer, but the state of Louisiana is determined to execute Patrick Kennedy for his crime. The New Orleans native faces that reality as he sits on death row at Louisiana's maximum security ...

Angola should have ended the Farm ... Warden Timothy Hooper; Director of Prison Enterprises Misty Stagg; the Louisiana ...

Doctors had recommended hospice care, but he was instead returned to Angola Prison for execution. Soon after Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill released statement saying, “Justice should ...

FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) Advertisement ...

Doctors instead sent him back to Angola ... Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana,” Nolan said in a statement.

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana ... Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of ...

All 40 illegal migrants held at the Guantánamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba have been sent back to the United States and are now being held in Louisiana, two U.S. defense officials told Fox News.

After years of juvenile detention, a repeat offender now faces adult prison time—raising questions about the system’s failures and ignored warning signs.

Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend ...

ANGOLA, La. — A terminally ill man who ... for surgery earlier in the week but was returned to the prison Friday night. Louisiana officials decided to resume carrying out death sentences earlier ...