Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method ...

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

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation allowing the state to carry out executions using nitrogen gas.

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott.

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...