Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

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A former NFL player has been sentenced to multiple years in federal prison. Former NFL player John Leake has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. Leake, who played in the NFL from 2005 ...

Employees at FCI Elkton, the federal prison in Elkrun Township, are feeling the impacts of federal cuts, as the Bureau of Prisons last week announced the elimination of retention bonuses and other ...

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - An Independence man has been sentenced to over seven years in federal prison for illegal possession of multiple firearms. In October 2023, Ian Jon Duffy was traffic ...

Details of how a Queensland man spent two months harassing a woman with death threats while he was behind bars in one of NSW’s most notorious prisons have been revealed. Billy Michael Armitage ...

WASHINGTON – A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last fall to shooting at energy facilities in North Dakota and South Dakota was sentenced Monday, March 10, to 25 years in prison. Cameron Monte ...

The Native American activist had served nearly 50 years in a federal prison, having been convicted of murder of two FBI agents in a shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975.

A former police officer jailed for murder has been found dead in his Thai prison cell. Thitisan Utthanaphon, nicknamed "Joe Ferrari", made headlines after a video showing him and six other ...

The Trump administration is expected to choose Federal Reserve governor Michelle Bowman to be the central bank’s top financial regulator, according to a person familiar with the decision who spoke ...