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

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.

A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen ...

State officials pronounced Jessie Hoffman Jr. dead at ... Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocols formed a template for Louisiana officials who recently crafted their own revised death penalty ...

Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United ...

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 ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana ... Hoffman’s execution in a 5-4 vote just moments before he was put to death. Hoffman’s lawyers argued that breathing the nitrogen gas would ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that nitrogen gas violates his constitutional and religious rights. The state says the execution ...

In 2024, Alabama became the first state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas when it put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to death. Smith was strapped to a gurney and fitted with a mask and breathing tube ...

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.