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

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death warrants for two executions this March. In this file photo from 2009, a death ...

He would be the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April.

A Florida man is set to be executed on Thursday for the savage murders of two young parents in front of their toddler ...

The Louisiana governor and attorney general are in favor of getting the execution process moving again after executions were ...

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

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

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the decision banning ...

In a story published Feb. 11, 2025, about death row cases in Louisiana, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Judge Amy Burford McCartney had not yet approved DeSoto Parish District ...