ANGOLA, La. – Louisiana is set to get back to executing murderers in the state. A DeSoto Parish case was to be the first execution in more than a dozen years. Christopher Sepulvado was set to be ...

"I wanted to meet with him as part of my own healing process and am outraged that the prison and the board of pardons refused to allow for this important work," wrote the sister-in-law of the Molly ...

A death row killer is set to be executed with a controversial method that his state bans using on cats and dogs ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr. scheduled to be executed Tuesday at Angola prison. This will be the first execution in 15 years in Louisiana. The state will be the second in the country to use nitrogen gas as a ...

The controversial method is set to be used on convicted killer Jessie Hoffman despite his legal team's protests against it ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for his conviction of the brutal 1996 rape and murder of 28-year-old accounting executive Mary 'Molly' Elliott.

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

A district judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop the execution last week, but a federal appeals court overturned the ruling on March 14, allowing it to continue ...

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO) — City Councilmember Oliver Thomas has announced his run for the seat of New Orleans Mayor. Thomas first served on the Orleans Parish City Council from 1994 to 2002. He then ...

A man on death row is facing execution tonight by use of a controversial nitrogen gas which the same state has banned for killing pet cats and dogs. Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to death in 1996 at ...

Attorneys for death row prisoner Jessie Hoffman filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court late Sunday night, seeking to block ...

As Louisiana prepares for its first execution in 15 years, lawyers for a death row inmate are seeking a last-minute court order to stop the execution from happening. At such a critical moment in US ...