Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with ...

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

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

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

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

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

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

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

A Louisiana death row inmate on Tuesday was executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used before in the state. "Louisiana has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the ...

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 ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...