Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Family members of both executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. and Mary "Molly" Elliott, the woman Hoffman was convicted ...

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

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

“Jessie Hoffman suffered because the state chose ... Louisiana has not made its nitrogen gas execution protocols public, meaning that attorneys and Hoffman did not entirely know what the ...

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 ...

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

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas despite last-ditch efforts by his legal team claiming the method violated his religious freedoms. Hoffman, who had been convicted ...