Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom for a 2005 murder, marking the state's first execution of the year amid a week of multiple ...

Columnist Will Sutton looks at the execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr., with an eye on two journalists who saw something most of ...

Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas or firing squads?

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

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

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with the Supreme Court majority on a decision for a stay of execution for the first time this term.

Two US states executed convicted murderers on Thursday, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this ...

There could be more executions coming as Louisiana looks to put away more death row inmates.

The state executed convicted murderer-rapist Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night (March 18). Hoffman was the first inmate executed in Louisiana in the past 15 years and the first put to death by ...

U.S. Supreme Court will not stop execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman City Councilmember Oliver Thomas has ...

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Nitrogen gas has been used in four other executions, each in the state of Alabama, where the method — also known as nitrogen ...