Following a Verite News and ProPublica investigation, a district judge vacated the death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, whose ...

Some criminal justice advocates argue the bill would increase the odds that innocent people stay in prison or are executed.

At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session propose changes that could affect cases moving forward amid a push to ...

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

Thank you for your excellent reporting on the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18 by the ... As a Christian, I am opposed to the death penalty. Jesus told the accusers of the woman caught ...

As the state resumes executions of death row prisoners ... to remain static for long periods of time. When Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman last month using nitrogen gas — the state’s ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr. was executed using nitrogen gas. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been pushing to clear the state’s backlog of inmates on death row. Reed’s legal team also appealed his ...

Jimmie Christian Duncan has spent over 26 years on death row at Louisiana’s Angola prison for the rape and murder of his ...