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

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

Danette Colbert booked with murder, alleged accomplice arrested in case of Super Bowl reporter's death ...

After spending 26 years on death row and 28 years after he murdered Molly Elliot, he became the first Louisiana inmate ...

Executions in the state date back to Louisiana's early colonial period when under French and Spanish rule. Under French rule, execution was used as a way to instill fear and uphold order and the ...

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

The first ever execution by nitrogen in the US state of Louisiana has been carried out on Death Row prisoner Jessie Hoffman Jr, who was convicted of murder and rape ...

Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for ...

A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen gas, a method never used in the state before.

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

Jessie Hoffman's attorney, Cecilia Kappel, speaks after a district court judge dissolved a temporarily restraining order ...