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

The world’s largest “blue” ammonia plant will be built in Ascension Parish and create more than 100 permanent jobs, Gov. Jeff ...

Bruce Ward was among eight inmates Arkansas planned to execute in 2017, but his execution and three others were halted by the ...

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

It was an all too familiar scene in Starke during the March 20 execution of Eddie James. Two groups trying to make sense of ...

U.S. natural gas producers and investment firms are gearing up for more activity in Louisiana's Haynesville shale basin, ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr. using nitrogen gas, marking the state’s first execution in over 15 years. Authorities ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana after the state struggled to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Hoffman, who was convicted of the rape and murder of 28 ...

A divided Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Jessie Hoffman, who was put to death on Tuesday night in Louisiana. Four justices would have put Hoffman’s execution on hold – one short of ...

Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday. Hoffman ...