US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

A federal judge has halted the plan execution of a St. Tammany Parish killer this week, pending a hearing into Louisiana’s ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for March 18, is now tied up in the courts.

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.