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

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

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 ...

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

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely untried method.

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

A convicted killer scheduled to be gassed to death in Louisiana Tuesday night had his last-minute appeal to save his life was turned down — paving the way for him to become the state’s first execution ...

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 ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in Louisiana’s first state execution since 2010, according to his attorneys. A spokesperson for Hoffman’s ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder ... State officials pronounced Jessie Hoffman Jr. dead at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at Angola. He inhaled pure nitrogen gas through a mask strapped to his ...