a small group of execution opponents held a vigil outside the rural southeast Louisiana prison at Angola, where the state's executions are carried out. Some passed out prayer cards with photos of ...

a small group of execution opponents held a vigil outside the rural southeast Louisiana prison at Angola, where the state’s executions are carried out. Some passed out prayer cards with photos ...

Hours before a Louisiana ... state with a protocol for the method. Hoffman’s lawyers say the method is unconstitutional, violating the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana ... who are not state officials about the torture that suffocation execution is — and at that point it will be found to be — cruel and unusual, a violation ...

But public opinion in the state, though divided, tips toward an acceptance of capital ... during Louisiana’s most recent execution in 2010, but the circumstances were unusual: Gerald Bordelon ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Duncan’s case fits with a long tradition of wrongful convictions in Louisiana.

Louisiana executed a man convicted ... with victims' r elatives once courts hand up capital convictions. For 15 years, he said the state was not fulfilling those contracts as Louisiana's death ...

It was the state’s first execution ... via Associated Press The push in Louisiana reflects a broader determination among many Republican officials to apply capital punishment.