Today on Louisiana Considered, in light of the state’s first execution in over a decade, we speak with anti-death penalty ...

At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session propose changes that could affect cases moving forward amid a push to ...

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 ...

Defense attorneys successfully argued both men had not pursued all their post-conviction remedies before a Caddo Parish judge set their execution dates.

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday recalled execution warrants that a judge had signed for two death row inmates who were ...

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 ...

If the execution by nitrogen gas proceeds according to the ... in a Monday letter requesting a pardon hearing for Hoffman, wrote, “Executing Jessie Hoffman is not justice in my name, it is ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections may have used compressed gas from a Pennsylvania company in the March 18 state execution of Jessie Hoffman ... the use of nitrogen gas ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46 ... during what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the US after four executions by the same method ...

The Jessie Hoffman execution was the first time ... and Oklahoma-permit death by nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas execution method has been applied four times in Alabama. Louisiana officials claimed ...