Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, including when he was recently served with a death warrant. "I was served a death warrant and immediately afterwards,

BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge hearing a challenge to Louisiana's death row protocols was in a quandary Friday: How can the state kill Jessie Hoffman without evoking childhood

Sepulvado, the state’s oldest death row prisoner, died late Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola from what the Louisiana Department of Corrections described as “natural ...

WDSU REPORTER JASMINE FRANKLIN IS LIVE TRACKING NEW REACTION TONIGHT. JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.