On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, which is ...
The decision by a state court judge in Baton Rouge paved the way for Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution to move forward ...
A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...
Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, defense lawyer Cecelia Kappel said.
In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...
Jessie Hoffman Jr was executed by nitrogen as it emerged the process is banned as a form of euthanasia for most mammals in ...
The planned execution at Angola will mark the first time Louisiana has used the lethal method on a death row inmate.