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

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 ...

In 2024, Alabama became the first state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas when it put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to ...

Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas despite ... It marked the first nitrogen gas execution in Louisiana and the state’s first execution in 15 years.

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 ...

“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 ...

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...

The Jessie Hoffman execution was the first ... Four states-Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma-permit death by nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas execution method has been applied four ...