A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen gas, a method never used in the state before.

Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr ...

At the age of 18, Hoffman abducted Molly Elliott in downtown New Orleans on November 26, 1996. He first ordered the ...

Executions in the state date back to Louisiana's early colonial period when under French and Spanish rule. Under French rule, execution was used as a way to instill fear and uphold order and the ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr was denied the chance to carry out a Buddhist ritual in this final moments after declining to take part in ...

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...

Attorneys for a Louisiana man are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas.

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana Parish.

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

According to the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections Gary Westcott, Hoffman was pronounced dead by ...