Lawrence Hecker had pleaded guilty earlier this month to the kidnapping and raping of his teenage victim in the 1970s.

Former New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, 93, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday (Dec. 18) after pleading ...

NEW ORLEANS — Former Catholic Priest Lawrence Hecker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday morning. Hecker, 93, pleaded ...

Lawrence Hecker was sentenced Wednesday, just weeks after he entered his plea moments before jury selection was slated to begin in his trial.

who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison ... of hours' drive from his grandmother's house. Louisiana State Penitentiary is known as “Angola,” the name of the plantation that formerly ...

Capitol Park Museum and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser are unveiling a new exhibit, “Billy Cannon: They Called Him Legend.” It ...

A man sentenced to life without parole under Louisiana’s repeat offender law ... Smith ordered him set free from Angola "as expeditiously as possible." The one-time Scotlandville track star ...

He was released in February 2016, but says he is still adapting to life outside. He had been in solitary confinement in Angola prison, the state penitentiary of Louisiana, since April 1972 for the ...

In this week's column, Peter Finney Jr. interviews Byron Johnson, director of Baylor University's Institute for Studies of ...

Whether volunteering in hospice, designing the prison magazine or leading the drama team, Gary Tyler lived an eventful life ...