Since 2000, at least seven people have been exonerated after courts found serious flaws associated with a theory called "bite ...

Prosecutors fighting the release of death row inmate Jimmie Duncan after a judge found him “factually innocent” of raping and ...

Attorney General Liz Murril has filed a writ asking to speed up the executions of five inmates, including a Caddo Parish ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would expedite the executions of five inmates on death row.

Darrell Robinson's conviction and death-penalty sentence have been affirmed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and Rapides ...

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is seeking to have the Louisiana Supreme Court review the case of the “Cheneyville ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

A Rapides Parish death penalty case is one of five the state is using in an effort to set a standard in post-conviction ...