Elliott's mother and husband remembered her as a loving woman who lit up every room. Her killer is set to become the first ...

Advocates against the death penalty from across the state and country showed up in front of the Governor’s Mansion this ...

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to ...

Dozens of people gathered on the lawn across from the Governor's Mansion on Sunday afternoon to oppose the nitrogen-gas ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

El Salvador sealed a return to the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup by outlasting USA in a sudden-death penalty shootout in the Concacaf semi-finals.

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of Mary ‘Molly’ Elliot in St. Tammany ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...