A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Angola was once called America’s bloodiest prison. The largest maximum-security prison in the United States, Angola has 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff. It occupies 28 square miles in Louisiana, a ...

Two months ago, in a rare move for an inmate not serving a state sentence, Tassin was sent to the state’s maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary. The transfer, classified as an ...

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 ...

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – An investigation into a drug trafficking network in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola led to the sentencing of 13 people including guards and inmates, one ...

Arthur Basaldua, 44, from Angola, received a 192-month federal prison sentence ... the Louisiana State Police, and the St. Francisville Police Department who worked tirelessly to dismantle ...

The big game is slated for Wednesday, March 19 in Los Angeles. Tip-off is at 8 p.m. CT.

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...

He died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, located in the eastern part of the state. Lawyers for Sepulvado in a statement announcing his death said he suffered from severe physical and ...