Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Hoffman is currently the only death row prisoner with an execution date ... David Brown is a member of the Angola 5, a group of inmates whose failed escape attempt on in December 1999 from ...

Louisiana is scheduled to carry out its first execution in 15 years this week, barring a last-minute reprieve from the U.S.

Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person in 15 years to be executed by the state of Louisiana on Tuesday evening. The big ...

ANGOLA, LA - The death penalty is back in use in Louisiana. The state has executed its first death row inmate in 15 years.

The 55 other men on death row were "kind of quiet and solemn today," Vannoy added. The Angola death chamber where Hoffman was executed is located within a unit that's home to some of the prison's ...

ANGOLA, La. – Louisiana is set to get back to executing murderers in the state. A DeSoto Parish case was to be the first execution in more than a dozen years. Christopher Sepulvado was set to be ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in ... State Penitentiary in Angola, officials confirmed.