Louisiana conducted its first execution in 15 years Tuesday as a man who was convicted in a 1996 murder was put to death by nitrogen gas – the state’s first use of that method of capital punishment.
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...
Hours before a Louisiana man was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys hoped for a last-minute court ruling to ...
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...
Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, has argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability ...
A prosecutor told jurors Jessie Hoffman had "ice water in his veins," but what's colder than keeping a man in a cage for ...
Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...
ANGOLA, La. — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, ...