The Louisiana Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling and reaffirmed the Attorney General’s authority to represent ...

Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murrill can intervene in a capital punishment case if a local prosecutor requests it, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled. Their decision, issued Tuesday, involves a ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court overturned a ruling from Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Kimya Holmes in allowing the AG's office to take over death penalty cases.

Geoffrey Todd West was executed on Thursday for the 1997 murder of Margaret Parrish Berry, 33, during a petrol station robbery ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, who was convicted of murdering two women and was sentenced to death for the second killing, has died at a hospital where he was taken for emergency ...

A Mississippi death row inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution. Click here for more.

The bill would allow death row inmates to choose their form of execution. If lethal injection is chosen but not available, ...