The New Orleans City Council took a symbolic stand Thursday against job discrimination based on workers' felony conviction ...

Defense attorneys successfully argued both men had not pursued all their post-conviction remedies before a Caddo Parish judge ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court late Friday put the brakes on execution plans for two Caddo Parish death row inmates.

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday recalled execution warrants that a judge had signed for two death row inmates who were ...

Caddo Parish DA’s Office files to have 2 death row inmates executed. The state supreme court ruled the district court must ...

A Florida death row inmate became the second man to ... It also comes two days after Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen gas on Tuesday and a day after Arizona put Aaron Gunches ...

A Florida death row inmate became the second man to be executed in the U.S. today and the fourth this week. Edward Thomas James, 63, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday for the brutal ...

Brevard County state attorney's office to review death penalty for former corrections deputy indicted in death of woman, 72 ...

David Barber has been formally indicted by a Brevard County grand jury on nine criminal charges in connection with the killing of 72-year-old Jessie Kirk in Titusville, Florida.

Two execution are scheduled for the second week of April in Florida and South Carolina, one of them by firing squad.

THE world has seen its deadliest year for executions in a decade, with Iran and China crowned the worst globally. Various ...