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

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney.

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

(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 ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

Louisiana senators are pressing state officials for information about the leadership of a controversial juvenile justice facility the state is using as its youth girls prison again. Ware Youth ...

(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 ...

Nine Louisiana residents have been sentenced to prison terms after a drug trafficking investigation in Avoyelles Parish, according to a news release. An investigation into methamphetamine ...