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

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with the Supreme Court majority on a decision for a stay of execution for the first time this term.

Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom for a 2005 murder, marking the state's first execution of the year amid a week of multiple ...

An Oklahoma man convicted of killing a woman during a home robbery was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, the ...

Jessie Hoffman was executed on March 18 after a hard-fought legal battle went all the way to the Supreme Court.

There could be more executions coming as Louisiana looks to put away more death row inmates.

A vehicle fire was reported on Jackson Street next to Therapeutic Solutions of Central Louisiana in Alexandria on March 19.

The state executed convicted murderer-rapist Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night (March 18). Hoffman was the first inmate ...

Louisiana conducted its first execution in nearly 15 years by executing a man who killed a woman from Arizona.

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

Nitrogen gas has been used in four other executions, each in the state of Alabama, where the method — also known as nitrogen ...