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

The families have expressed mixed emotions following the state's first execution in 15 years and shared memories from the ...

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

People still say, "That’s not the Jessie I knew." But most didn’t know what he endured at home – and that’s likely what drove ...

Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for capital punishment. Alabama was the first state to use the method, as it put ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials, Hoffman was ...

Hours before he was executed, Jessie Hoffman Jr. meditated. He cried and laughed with his family. He played charades. And though Hoffman declined to make a public, final statement when he was ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...

Jessie Hoffman is set to be executed Tuesday for the rape and murder of a 28-year-old beloved accounting executive named Molly Elliott. Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be ...

State officials pronounced Jessie Hoffman Jr. dead at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at Angola. He inhaled pure nitrogen gas through a mask strapped to his face for 19 minutes while pinned to a gurney ...