ST. FRANCISVILLE — Barry S. Edge will serve life in prison for the murder of a Louisiana State Penitentiary prison guard almost 14 years ago after a jury deadlocked on whether to sentence the Angola ...

Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Scott Crichton recused himself on Tuesday from the pending appeal of death row inmate David Brown in the "Angola 5" prison-guard murder case. Read the latest here.

In the first of five capital murder trials involving the so-called "Angola 5," a group that includes ties to the New Orleans area, a Baton Rouge man convicted this month in the fatal beating of a ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The I-Team sheds light on the enormous cost of our Judicial System. Thirteen years ago, a botched escape attempt from Angola ended in the death of a prison guard. The case is ...

Attorneys for Angola 5 defendant David Mathis have persuaded a judge to allow them to use a jailhouse confession they say would show jurors their client had no intent to kill a prison security officer ...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) - The new attorneys for the only Angola inmate still facing trial in the 1999 beating and stabbing death of a prison security officer told a state judge they probably will ...