Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

The former leader of a large-scale drug-trafficking operation who used Hoover Crips members as dealers and also participated in dog fighting has been released from federal prison early after he ...

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court convicted four defendants, oil company Trafigura, its former executive and co-conspirers, for bribing an Angolan public official to obtain trade contracts on Friday.

In addition to his prison sentence, Balosa received six years of probation, and will be included on the sex offender registry for the remainder of his life, the state Attorney General’s Office said.

A Swiss court convicted Trafigura and three people linked to the commodities trading firm of corruption in Angola, in what ...

A Swiss court convicted Trafigura and three people linked to the commodities trading firm of corruption in Angola ... of which he must serve 12 months in prison. Prison terms were also handed ...

House Bill 1361 would establish mandatory minimum prison sentences for people found guilty of human trafficking crimes. The highest sentence would put a person convicted of a Class AA trafficking ...