John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York on Thursday rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A Texas judge has fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first ...

The Marshall Project spotlights local officials who see President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation as an answer to ...

A commission has recommended grants be awarded to several juvenile jails, including one in East Baton Rouge Parish and one in ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

Richard Lee Tabler was condemned for the Thanksgiving 2004 shooting deaths of Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni, 28, and Haitham Zayed, ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.