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 ...

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 ...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office is seeking death warrants for two death row inmates.

Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr. using nitrogen gas, marking the state’s first execution in over 15 years. Authorities ...

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 ...

A Florida death row inmate was executed by lethal injection, becoming the second man to be put to death in the U.S. today and the fourth this week. Edward Thomas James, 63, was executed on Thursday ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas. Hoffman, 46, was put to death at the Louisiana State ...

In Tuesday's Hoffman v. Westcott, the Court denied a stay of execution; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have granted a stay, but didn't write ...

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 ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr ... in the nation’s first nitrogen hypoxia execution, in Alabama. Hoffman’s lawyers had unsuccessfully argued that the nitrogen gas procedure – which deprives a person ...