Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

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

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

(AP) — A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution ... that that nitrogen hypoxia would inflict "torture on Jessie at the time of his death.” Hoffman, who did not ...

Defense attorneys argue it would be "unheard of in both this state and the nation" for executions to be scheduled before an inmate exhausts all appeals.

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 ...

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