It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature could soon make first-degree rape and sodomy of a child under 12 punishable by death.

Editorial: No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty, Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to use nitrogen gas as ...

One wonders whether Sepulveda will even be taken out of his wheelchair before he is so inhumanely murdered by Gov. Landry and ...

The decorated death penalty litigator talks about a need to move away from incarceration as the antidote to crime problems ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill ...

A bill that would allow Arkansas to execute prisoners using nitrogen gas will be reviewed by the state House Judiciary ...

These actions, when coupled with the elevation of ADVA to cabinet rank, will ensure that Alabama remains atop the nation’s ...

The Alabama Legislature has wrapped up the second week of the 2025 Legislative Session, with both the House and Senate ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the ...