Jessie Hoffman Jr was the first convict to be put to death in Louisiana for 15 years - and the Supreme Court had rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the execution. The 46-year-old had been found ...

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

Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a gurney and forced to ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday when death row Jessie Hoffman was killed using nitrogen gas.

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, declining to intervene by a 5-4 vote shortly before a man was to be put to death Tuesday ...

Despite more states shifting toward nitrogen hypoxia executions as lethal injection drugs become scarce, the high court ...

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

He was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old advertising executive, Mary “Molly” Elliott, in New Orleans.

The US Supreme Court cleared the way for Louisiana to execute an inmate in a way he says will violate his Buddhist beliefs.