The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a trial court’s decision to deny death row inmate Jessie D. Hoffman’s request to cancel his scheduled execution Tuesday (March 18). Hoffman’s lawyers argued that ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that convicted killer and rapist Jessie Hoffman’s execution using nitrogen gas can proceed as ...

Advocates against the death penalty from across the state and country showed up in front of the Governor’s Mansion this ...

Dozens of people gathered on the lawn across from the Governor's Mansion on Sunday afternoon to oppose the nitrogen-gas ...

BATON ROUGE, LA - A motion was filed earlier this month challenging the state of Louisiana's use of nitrogen gas for the ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of Mary ‘Molly’ Elliot in St. Tammany ...

When a conservative columnist says execution by the administration of pure nitrogen gas is a “cruel and unusual punishment,” ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...