Brianna Daye, 29, pleaded guilty to child endangering charges on Thursday and was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence with credit for time served. She will spend two years on probation, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s been 15 years since anyone on death row in Louisiana was executed. That could change next month. The first death sentence to be carried out since 2010 is scheduled for ...

The popular measure offers repeat drug offenders a chance at treatment instead of a stiffer sentence. But Newsom proposes the needed treatment funds.

The Utah House voted to allow ICE to immediately deport immigrants who are convicted of violent class A misdemeanors.

A bill to expand the state’s definition of sexual extortion to include threats of what is often referred to as “revenge porn, ...

The cost of a bill that would require violent offenders to spend more of their sentences in prison instead of transitional ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

As President Trump continues his push to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records, Washington State Democrats ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Brusic said there were a combination of factors in Rangel’s resentencing, including ...