Angola 5

The jury will return today for more testimony on the question of whether they should give Edge a death sentence or a life sentence.

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — The attorneys for LouisianaState Penitentiary inmate Barry Edge have persuaded a judge to postpone Edge's first-degree murder trial in the 1999 beating and stabbing death of prison security Capt. David C. Knapps...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — Attorneys for Angola 5 defendant David Mathis have persuaded a judge to allow them to use a jailhouse confession they say would show jurors their client had no intent to kill a prison security officer in 1999...

A jury heard a recording of Angola 5 defendant David Brown telling investigators that he dragged Louisiana State Penitentiary security Capt. David Knapps into an employee restroom and held the officer while a co-defendant hit him with a mallet.

Prosecutor Tommmy Block says a dead prison guard's blood on an inmate's hands, clothing and shoes shows that he was an active participant in the killing when an escape plan fell apart in December 1999.