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Louisiana State Penitentiary is the location of the State of Louisiana's male death row and execution chamber. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Louisiana since 2010, and no involuntary executions since 2002.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection.
Last execution date Name Crime Method C United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021 [68] Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging: D Alabama: 6 February 2025 [69] Demetrius Terrence Frazier: capital murder: nitrogen hypoxia: A ...
Twenty-nine states have either abolished the death penalty or paused executions. Last year nearly every death row inmate in Louisiana asked for clemency — the commutation of a death sentence to ...
In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as ...
Louisiana is one of 27 states where the death penalty still exists, though it's been 13 years since a prisoner was executed because corrections officials say they've been unable to secure the ...
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which Only executed 1 prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [38] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
Since 1722, more than 650 people have been executed under the death penalty in Louisiana, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.