Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for March 18, is now tied up in the courts.

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 ...

"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 ...

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was scheduled for execution Tuesday evening as legal challenges continued to unfold as his attorneys sought a last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court.

As Louisiana prepared its first execution in 15 years, a team of lawyers from Loyola Law were working to save Jessie ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr. meditated. He cried and laughed with his family. He played charades. And though Hoffman declined to make a public, final statement when he was strapped to the execution table at ...

Jessie Hoffman is set to be executed Tuesday for the rape and murder of a 28-year-old beloved accounting executive named Molly Elliott. Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be ...

“Jessie Hoffman suffered because the state chose to use the end of his life as an experiment,” his attorney, Samantha Pourciau, said in a written statement after his execution. “It was ...

"Today, the State of Louisiana took the life of my husband, Jessie Hoffman. But no execution can erase the truth of who he was — a beautiful soul who inspired many. The past few weeks have been ...

State Attorney General Liz Murrill called the execution "justice" for Molly and for Louisiana in a post to X. Jessie Hoffman Jr. is pictured while he was on death row for a 1996 New Orleans ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, which was scheduled to take place on March 18. Attorney General Liz ...