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

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

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.

Jessie Hoffman was executed Tuesday night ... was the first in 15 years and was the first time nitrogen gas was used as an execution method. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved ...

“Jessie Hoffman suffered because the state ... Smith shook and writhed within restraints on the gurney. Louisiana has not made its nitrogen gas execution protocols public, meaning that attorneys ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

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 should ...

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, declined to give a final statement before the gas began flowing and he ... was introduced in 1982. Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution ...

Louisiana plans to use the new method to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death in the state’s first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four times to execute a person in 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 ...

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 ...