JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM, THE MAN ACCUSED OF A DEADLY KIDNAPING AND MURDER IS IN FEDERAL COURT IN NEW ORLEANS RIGHT NOW. A JUDGE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT HE’S COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. WDSU ...

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The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

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Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf has stated she will be seeking the death penalty for Alex Torres-Santos and Ivan Claudio-Rosero for homicide charges. Both men were allegedly involved ...

Here's what we know so far about the hyperbaric chamber death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper, the Oxford Center, and the people charged in his death.

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...