Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has overturned a lower court's injunction, paving the way for the execution of ...

After years of juvenile detention, a repeat offender now faces adult prison time—raising questions about the system’s failures and ignored warning signs.

The BBC has asked the Angolan government to comment. But according to a source from the Migration and Aliens Service (SME), ...

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Sepulvado, convicted in the 1992 killing of his six-year-old stepson Wesley Allen Mercer, had been on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for over 30 years. He was the oldest ...

New Orleans-based photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have been documenting life inside the Louisiana State ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

He was hospitalized last week in New Orleans, they said, and returned Friday to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. “Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical ...