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

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

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

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial 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 ...

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 ...

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

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

A district court judge in Baton Rouge Monday issued a temporary restraining order for Tuesday night’s planned execution of ...

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

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...