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

As Louisiana prepared its first execution in 15 years, a team of lawyers from Loyola Law were working to save Jessie ...

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr. by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, becoming the second state to ever use the new method. Newsweek reached out to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and ...

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.

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely untried method.

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

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

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 ...

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

Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in Louisiana’s first state execution since 2010, according to his attorneys. A spokesperson for Hoffman’s ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder ... 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 ...