As Louisiana prepared its first execution in 15 years, a team of lawyers from Loyola Law were working to save Jessie ...

Many members of Loyola’s community are expressing frustration with the recent execution of Jessie Hoffman, Louisiana’s first ...

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

Defense attorneys argue it would be "unheard of in both this state and the nation" for executions to be scheduled before an inmate exhausts all appeals.

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

The indictment from the grand jury alleges that five officers including the police chief of the Hanceville Police Department tampered with physical evidence, sold and distributed illegal drugs and ...

The Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murril’s office announced on Monday that it will lead the prosecution in the ...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office is seeking death warrants for two death row inmates.

It’s been a number of years since the death penalty was carried out in Louisiana. A vicious rapist and killer, a fellow named Jesse Hoffman, was put to death at Angola State prison just two weeks ago.

On Dec. 8, 2003, a conflict in Abbeville, South Carolina, over 20 feet of land turned deadly. Steven Bixby ambushed and killed Abbeville County sheriff’s Sgt. Danny Wilson and state constable Donnie ...