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 ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

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

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 ...

The protocol says that Louisiana prison officials will strap the death row inmate to a gurney ahead of his execution and ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...