Sepulvado was Louisiana's oldest prisoner on death row at 81. "The idea that the State was planning to strap this tiny, frail ...

A federal judge on Friday reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out ...

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

Christopher Sepulvado, the 81-year-old man who was facing execution next month for the 1992 murder of his stepson, died ...

An 81-year-old death row inmate died in the Louisiana State Penitentiary after spending over 30 years on death row.

Sepulvado, convicted in the 1992 killing of his six-year-old stepson Wesley Allen Mercer, had been on death row at Angola for ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man sentenced to death for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

It also allows for "designated victim relationship witnesses." The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola will carry out the executions and is responsible for checking all aspects of the system.

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...