Louisiana officials are planning to carry out its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday after a judge denied death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's eleventh-hour arguments that it violates his ...

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first execution in 15 years.

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman is the state’s first person to be executed with nitrogen gas after he raped and murdered 28-year-old Mary “Molly" Elliott in 1996.

Louisiana had paused executions for 15 years due to an inability to secure lethal injection drugs, but with a nitrogen gas execution protocol finalized last month, the state has been eager to proceed.

A man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery is set to be executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama ...

In January 2024, Alabama made history when it conducted the first execution by nitrogen gas in ... distress," Louisiana Chief District Judge Shelly Dick wrote in an opinion that temporarily blocked ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...