Anti-death penalty advocates and representatives from many faiths called for an end to executions in Louisiana and wished ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, who was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a ...

The first ever execution by nitrogen in the US state of Louisiana has been carried out. Murderer-rapist Jessie Hoffman Jr was ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, has argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability ...

Louisiana has executed a man for the first time in 15 years using nitrogen gas. Jessie Hoffman was executed Tuesday night at ...

He was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old advertising executive, Mary “Molly” Elliott, in New Orleans.