When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Louisiana is set to carry out its first execution in in less than an hour. It’s the first execution in 15 years and first to ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

In the felony battery case that precipitated the transfer, officers say Tassin stabbed two inmates with a homemade prison ... to Angola. Records obtained exclusively by WWL Louisiana show that ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana death row inmate Jessie ... FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni ...

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely ...