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Louisiana State police have captured a fifth inmate who escaped the Orleans Parish Jail early Friday morning. Corey Boyd was arrested Tuesday evening in New Orleans. Boyd was originally charged ...

FILE – Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

Thank you for your excellent reporting on the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18 by the state of Louisiana at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorities said, adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during what one official ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical ...

The first execution in Louisiana after a 15-year pause will take place Tuesday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. This will not only be the first execution in the state in 15 years but also the ...

Also on the list of state sanctioned execution methods is electrocution – sponsored by State Rep. Nicholas Muscarello. Louisiana last carried out a death by electrocution 34 years ago.

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came just one week before Jessie Hoffman, 46, was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola on March 18 for the ...

Calvin Duncan, “the most brilliant legal mind” in the nation’s largest maximum-security prison, had long questioned a Louisiana law that allows 10-to-2 jury verdicts. By Adam Liptak ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorities said, adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during what one official ...