Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of a ...

March 19 (UPI) --Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and ...

Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution protocol, which was being kept secret from the public until now.

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, including when he was recently served with a death warrant. "I was served a death ...

In the chamber with Hoffman was his spiritual adviser ... Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death ...

Louisiana has unsealed its execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, revealing new details about how the state plans to carry out death sentences.

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