Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it's been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber's black-padded gurney to die.
The man convicted of killing Betty Smothers, a Baton Rouge police officer and the mother of a former NFL star Warrick Dunn has been given a reprieve from the death penalty by the U.S. Supreme Court.
GONZALES, La. (AP) — Prosecutors in Ascension Parish will seek the death penalty for four men accused of killing three members of a Gonzales family.
The Advocate reports a notice of intent has been issued to seek the death penalty for Michael Aikens, Travis Moore, Bernard James and Rolondo Stewart...
According to a new poll from the Pew Research Center 63 percent of adults polled favor the death penalty. 31 percent of the 2000 adults polled were opposed to the death penalty. They did not ask me but rest assured I am strongly in favor of the death penalty in most cases.
A jury in St. Francisville has given the death penalty to Angola inmate David Brown for the murder in 1999 of Angola security guard Captain David Knapps.