In nearly simultaneous decisions, courts in two U.S. states on Tuesday blocked the imminent executions of death row inmates. The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard ...

But in Louisiana, we don’t get as much for our tax dollars as they do in Texas. Our school system, our health care system, our climate challenges. Those kinds of things matter to companies when ...

Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi are home to 14 of the 20 largest immigration detention centers in the country. Democratic and Republican administrations have long used them as a hub for immigrant ...

The move would add some big-state momentum to a trend started by Louisiana last year with a law that is blocked in court but has other states looking at similar proposals. Texas Lt. Gov.

Within minutes of the Texas decision, though it's unclear which ruling technically came first, a Louisiana judge temporarily blocked what was to be the state's first execution by nitrogen gas ...