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 ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

"I wanted to meet with him as part of my own healing process and am outraged that the prison and the board of pardons refused ...

Louisiana has executed a man for the first time in 15 years using nitrogen gas. Jessie Hoffman was executed Tuesday night at Angola and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. Sign up for our Newsletters ...

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was scheduled for execution Tuesday evening as legal challenges continued to unfold as his attorneys sought a last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court.

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.

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.

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 ...

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to ...

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

“Jessie Hoffman suffered because the state chose to use the end of his life as an experiment,” his attorney, Samantha Pourciau, said in a written statement after his execution. “It was ...

"Executing Jessie Hoffman is not justice in my name, it is the opposite." Andy Elliott said last week that he was torn about the execution after spending nearly 30 years waiting for finality in ...