Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana ...

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

ANGOLA, LA - The death penalty is back in use in Louisiana. The state has executed its first death row inmate in 15 years.

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.

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

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.

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago. Hoffman declined to make a final ...

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana's execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be ...

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

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

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