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 ...

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

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

Louisiana’s oldest death row inmate dies 3 weeks before he was to be state’s first execution in 15 years - “Give me a little time,” Christopher Sepulvado’s ex, who also served time for her son’s ...

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

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 ...

Sepulvado, convicted in the 1992 killing of his six-year-old stepson Wesley Allen Mercer, had been on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ... returned to Angola Prison for execution.

FILE - Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) ...

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

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

shedding public light on how the state plans to put him to death on March 18. The protocol says that Louisiana prison officials will strap the death row inmate to a gurney ahead of his execution ...