It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing Louisiana to resume executing death row prisoners, with the state potentially carrying out its first executions since 2010 next month with nitrogen gas on the table.

Antoinette Frank, a former New Orleans police officer convicted of a 1995 triple murder, may soon have her execution date scheduled, according to Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill.

Who is on death row in Louisiana? Here are the 57 names and their history. At 81, Sepulvado is the oldest of the 57 people on death row in Louisiana. He was convicted in the 1992 murder of his six ...

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...

In a story published Feb. 11, 2025, about death row cases in Louisiana, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Judge Amy Burford McCartney had not yet approved DeSoto Parish District ...

On This Week in Louisiana Politics, get the latest on several lawsuits in the state including a New York doctor prescribing an abortion pill for a minor, an LSU professor being kept from teaching ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.