After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has issued an executive order prohibiting the automatic extension of state leased buildings. The ...

Louisiana’s two largest teacher unions have come out in support of a sweeping constitutional amendment. Gov. Jeff Landry has ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie Hoffman Jr.'s execution.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...