Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...
It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie ...
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...
Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr ...
DEATH row killer Jessie Hoffman has been executed with nitrogen gas in a 19-minute ordeal that left him “twitching and ...
In 2024, Alabama became the first state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas when it put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to ...
ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...
In the chamber with Hoffman was his spiritual advisor ... Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty ...
Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, marking the state’s return to capital ...
People executed through nitrogen hypoxia can shake and convulse vigorously ... “Patients should never confuse the death chamber with the operating room, lethal doses of execution drugs with ...