The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

True crime lovers and macabre enthusiasts are often interested in topics regarding serial killers. Does Louisiana have a ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

Louisiana senators are pressing state officials for information about the leadership of a controversial juvenile justice ...

Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...

Two Louisiana senators are raising questions about why Louisiana’s youth prison system banned at-home visits for incarcerated ...

We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel.

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

In 2024, using violent crime rhetoric that isn’t supported by data, legislators approved that reversed progress for youth in ...

State’s GOP Legislature expanded ... involuntary and associated with oxygen deprivation. Louisiana's Department of Public Safety and Corrections did not respond to a request for comment.