Today on Louisiana Considered, in light of the state’s first execution in over a decade, we speak with anti-death penalty ...

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

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

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 ...

The adoption of the method came just hours before Louisiana ended a 15-year pause on capital punishment with the nitrogen gas execution of Jessie Hoffman, marking the first time the method has been ...

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 set their execution dates.

More states are struggling to obtain the more common lethal injection drugs. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving to ...

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