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Gov. Jeff Landry addressed a joint session of the Louisiana Legislature to start a special session centered on criminal justice policy.

State Rep. Nicholas Muscarello recently filed a bill proposing adding nitrogen gas and electrocution to the list of authorized methods.

State Rep. Nicholas Muscarello recently filed a bill proposing adding nitrogen gas and electrocution to the list of authorized methods.

The Louisiana Board of Pardons on Monday will hear the pleas for clemency from five death row inmates, including a man who was convicted in the 1995 murders of two people at Calendars restaurant on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge.

The Louisiana Board of Pardons on Monday will hear the pleas for clemency from five death row inmates, including a man who was convicted in the 1995 murders of two people at Calendars restaurant on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge.

There are many people unhappy after nearly every inmate on Death Row at Angola asked Governor John Bel Edwards to spare their lives.

Kimen Lee was reaching out the window to drop sales receipts into a bank deposit box in 1993 when a series of gunshots interrupted her nightly routine. When Lee, then

Kimen Lee was reaching out the window to drop sales receipts into a bank deposit box in 1993 when a series of gunshots interrupted her nightly routine. When Lee, then

A man who was sent to Louisiana's death row as a teenager and later had his conviction overturned told state lawmakers he will always fight to end the state's death penalty.

Louisiana is one of 27 states where the death penalty exists, though its been 13 years since a prisoner was executed.