Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

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

Cholera can kill within hours without treatment, although it can also cause mild or no symptoms. Children under five are at ...

An Angola man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after being involved in an accident that took the life of a child. According ...

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A life insurance ad featuring a widow expressing regret over her husband's lack of insurance has been widely criticized for insensitivity. The commercial was intended to highlight financial ...

New Orleans-based photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have been documenting life inside the Louisiana State ...

Jackson’s searing black-and-white photos documented not just work in the fields, but life inside Southern ... Cummins Unit prison farm in Varner, Ark. (Bruce Jackson via AP) This 2004 photo shows ...

A prison guard holds a glass of an iced drink while watching prisoners picking cotton in 1975 at the Cummins Unit prison farm of the Arkansas Department of Corrections in Grady, Ark. (Bruce ...

Damien Molony has taken over the role of 80s detective Bergerac in the upcoming reboot (Picture: Joss Barratt/ UK TV) Decades after the character was introduced to viewers, Irish actor Damien ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight ... fear and narcissistic bravado that constitutes life inside for these characters. The performances match the measured ...