ANGOLA, La. – A nearly 30-year-old Louisiana murder case finally comes to an end. In just the last few hours, the state of Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years, and the first ...

Out of 56 death row inmates in the state of Louisiana, Hoffman is the only one with a scheduled date. Jessie Hoffman Jr., a Black man scheduled to be the first death row inmate executed by ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A federal judge has blocked the state of Louisiana from executing death row inmate Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen hypoxia. According to court documents, the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be ...

Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening, his attorneys were hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas.

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Louisiana Death Row Inmate Who Is Scheduled to Die by Nitrogen Hypoxia Challenges the Method BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person ...