A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

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

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

On Tuesday evening, March 18, the state of Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr., putting him to death with nitrogen gas.

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr. scheduled to be executed Tuesday at Angola prison. This will be the first execution in 15 years in ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana ...

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...