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

Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for capital punishment. Alabama was the first state to use the method, as it put ...

Jessie Hoffman, 46, will be the first Louisiana Death Row inmate executed in 15 years. His attorneys object to the state's plan to use nitrogen gas to kill him.

Family members of both executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. and Mary "Molly" Elliott, the woman Hoffman was convicted ...

People still say, "That’s not the Jessie I knew." But most didn’t know what he endured at home – and that’s likely what drove ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely untried method.

Louisiana has executed a man for the first time in 15 years using nitrogen gas. Jessie Hoffman was executed Tuesday night at Angola and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. Sign up for our Newsletters ...

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

DEATH row killer Jessie Hoffman has been executed with nitrogen gas in a 19-minute ordeal that left him “twitching and jerking”. The 46-year-old declined to make a final statement in ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Mary "Molly" Elliott. Hoffman was executed on March 18, 2025. Louisiana has ...

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