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 ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

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 ...

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

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, 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 ...

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.

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, the site of a former plantation.

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 ...

A federal appellate court this week refused to throw out a ban on housing incarcerated youth at Angola ... the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana ...