Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned next week after a federal appeals court ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn why a man who was convicted on faulty bite mark evidence is facing execution, even ...

A federal judge blocked Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over cruel and unusual punishment. The ...

U.S. Supreme Court blocked Louisiana’s law in 2008; Rep. Bruce Skaug thinks nation’s high court will rule differently ...

The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Jimmie Chris Duncan is on death row in Louisiana for a crime that experts now say may never have happened. His case has ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...