Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for capital punishment. Alabama was the first state to use the method, as it put ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

"I wanted to meet with him as part of my own healing process and am outraged that the prison and the board of pardons refused ...

Louisiana has executed a man for the first time in 15 years using nitrogen gas. Jessie Hoffman was executed Tuesday night at Angola and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. Sign up for our Newsletters ...

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 ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Jessie Hoffman had been executed by the state. Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was scheduled for execution Tuesday evening as legal challenges ...

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

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

A prosecutor told jurors Jessie Hoffman had "ice water in his veins," but what's colder than keeping a man in a cage for ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...

Louisiana is set to carry out its first execution in in less than an hour. It’s the first execution in 15 years and first to use nitrogen ...