A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

23. Belle Gunness, a Norwegian American serial killer active in Illinois and Indiana from 1884–1908, suspected of killing up ...

Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to expedite executions for five death row inmates.

Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to review five death row post-conviction relief cases and develop standards for district courts to use.

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, said Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis. Gudinas was ...

Louisiana officials arrest Darriana Burton, girlfriend of escaped inmate Derrick Groves, on conspiracy charges as manhunt continues for two jail fugitives ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose 1998 conviction for killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter was ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – A motion seeking a death warrant for a Shreveport man on death row has been filed in Caddo District Court.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials, Hoffman ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman.