Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

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

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.

A convicted killer scheduled to be gassed to death in Louisiana Tuesday night had his last-minute appeal to save his life was turned down — paving the way for him to become the state’s first execution ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, who was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas for 19 minutes through a full-fac ...

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 ...

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 ...

the laws of the state of Louisiana and in rulings from the state and federal court, the execution of death row inmate Jesse Hoffman Jr. will be carried out between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. this evening ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued against the capital ... There are 56 inmates on Louisiana’s death row. Louisiana is following in the footsteps of Alabama, which has executed four people ...

State officials pronounced Jessie Hoffman Jr. dead at 6:50 p.m ... Lawyers for Hoffman, the only one of Louisiana's 56 death row prisoners who advocates acknowledged had exhausted his appeals ...

(Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman was scheduled for execution Tuesday ...