Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...

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

The most recent U.S. execution took place last Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, ...

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

Louisiana's similarities to Alabama. The state's execution protocol for nitrogen gas is a near mirror copy of Alabama's, and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Appeals court allows Louisiana to move forward with state's first execution using nitrogen gas next week.

Though “Louisiana officials argue that their execution plan is ‘similar but improved’ compared to Alabama’s,” Avery and ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned next week after a federal appeals court ...