As Louisiana prepared its first execution in 15 years, a team of lawyers from Loyola Law were working to save Jessie ...

Many members of Loyola’s community are expressing frustration with the recent execution of Jessie Hoffman, Louisiana’s first ...

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Kate Murphy, a sister-in-law of the murder victim, in a Monday letter requesting a pardon hearing for Hoffman, wrote, “Executing Jessie Hoffman is not justice in my name, it is the opposite.” ...

A divided Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Jessie Hoffman, who was put to death on Tuesday night in Louisiana. Four justices would have put Hoffman’s execution on hold – one short of ...

The room in which Louisiana planned to murder Jessie Hoffman was steps away. Jessie Hoffman is about six feet tall and muscular. He was wearing a black t-shirt that said Life Row in white letters ...

Hoffman refused to eat any more meals or make one last speech before he was executed. "Louisiana has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the execution of Jessie Hoffman," Louisiana ...

Wendell Grissom, 56, will receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester in Oklahoma’s first ...

The execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr., convicted in the 1996 murder of a woman abducted from a New Orleans parking garage, was completed Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials ...