A man indicted in the grisly murders of a Louisiana mother and her daughter has been found competent to stand trial.

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

Louisiana is notorious for a trifecta of compounding barriers to effectuate the rights of immigrants: conservative courts, ...

A convicted child murderer whose death sentence was commuted by former President Biden during his last weeks in office has ...

A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades ... a nonprofit focused on exonerating wrongful convictions. Mississippi-based forensic dentist Michael West and pathologist Steven Hayne ...

Fourteen of the 20 largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in the United States are in Louisiana, Mississippi and ... are operated by private prison companies — hold ...