The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

He died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, located in the eastern part of the state. Lawyers for ...

An octogenarian death row inmate scheduled to be Louisiana's first person put to death in 15 years next month has died, ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or ...

Sepulvado was Louisiana's oldest prisoner on death row at 81. "The idea that the State was planning to strap this tiny, frail ...

This was Simmons’ new reality. The young man from Louisiana who never had any prior convictions now languished in his tiny ...

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 ...