As the state resumes executions of death row prisoners, a bill in the legislature aims to cut back on the time people convicted of crimes can spend trying to reduce or overturn their sentences, and it ...

IBERIA PARISH, La. - Deputies (SFM) have arrested a Franklin, Louisiana man for setting a fire that destroyed a vacant New ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been arguing ...

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 ...

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 ...

It also comes two days after Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen gas on Tuesday and a day after Arizona put Aaron Gunches to death by lethal injection on Wednesday. James is the ...