Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, in a life he’d mostly spent on death row.

When the state executed Jessie Hoffman at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, it wasn't the first time Louisiana killed someone by execution. Robert Wayne Williams was executed in ...

He was already strapped onto the execution table and draped in a plush ... thumbs touching forefingers in a sacred Buddhist pose, as Angola Warden Darrel Vannoy reached for a microphone.

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Nick Chastil and Katy Reckdahl on working conditions at Angola's Farm Line, with an eye on summer heat, and execution in Louisiana, following the first state execution in more than a decade.

On Tuesday afternoon, a small group of execution opponents held a vigil outside the rural southeast Louisiana prison at Angola, where the state’s executions are carried out. Some passed out ...