On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Hours before a Louisiana man was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys hoped for a last-minute court ruling to ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person in 15 years to be executed by the state of Louisiana on Tuesday evening. The big ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr, convicted of murder and rape, was executed by the state of Louisiana on Tuesday. His legal team tried to ...

Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen gas, a method never used in the state before.

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.