Amendment 3, one of four proposed changes to the constitution voters will weigh this week, is controversial. Here's why.

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Baton Rouge rapper NBA YoungBoy has been transferred to a facility in Arizona. According to records, Kentrell Gaulden, 25, ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

Louisiana's protocol says death row inmates will be forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a respirator mask for 15 minutes or for 5 minutes after the inmate's heart rate reaches a flatline on an EKG ...

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

On Tuesday evening, March 18, the state of Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr., putting him to death with nitrogen gas.

A Louisiana pastor is facing the consequences after taping students’ mouths shut for 'talking too much' in class.

(Julie O’Donoghue, Louisiana Illuminator) In just a matter of months, Gov. Jeff Landry plans to reopen a Baton Rouge-area youth prison shuttered a little over a decade ago with support at the ...

(Photo by Julie O'Donoghue/Louisiana Illuminator) In just a matter of months, Gov. Jeff Landry plans to reopen a Baton Rouge-area youth prison shuttered a little over a decade ago with support at ...

Doctors had recommended hospice care, but he was instead returned to Angola Prison for execution. Soon after Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill released statement saying, “Justice should ...