The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

Approximately 60 inmates are on death row in Louisiana, but executions have stalled due to legal challenges and drug shortages. Also on the list of state sanctioned execution methods is ...

In an execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate's face is covered ... which also added electrocution to the list of state-sanctioned execution methods. Louisiana stopped using electrocution ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented a protocol allowing sentences for death row inmates to be carried out using the nitrogen hypoxia method, Gov.

The Supreme Court’s March argument session will include a dispute over a congressional voting map that created a second ...

Advocates for death row inmates and Attorney General ... the only woman among the 57 occupants of Louisiana's death row, is not currently on the short list. Murrill's office eased back on a ...

days after a doctor in the state was indicted for sending abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana. The new law, which took effect immediately, allows doctors to request for their names to ...

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

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man sentenced to death for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old ...