Seth Smith, chief of operations at the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, witnessed the execution and also acknowledged Hoffman's movements. Smith, who has a medical background, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the death ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man ... to be administered for at least 15 minutes or five minutes after the inmate’s heart rate reaches a flatline indication on the EKG, whichever ...

I miss her so much': Remembering Molly Elliott, killed by Louisiana Death Row inmate Their killer is facing execution by firing squad. Who were Gladys and David Larke? A ‘good ‘ol American boy ...

Now nearly 30 years later, Elliott’s killer is set to become the first inmate in Louisiana history – and only the fifth in the U.S. – to be executed by the controversial nitrogen gas method.

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate’s execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

The State of Louisiana is locked in a legal battle over what would've been its first execution in 15 years. State officials planned to use nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman Jr. on March 18 ...

The State of Louisiana is locked in a legal battle over what would've been its first execution in 15 years. State officials planned to use nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman Jr. on March 18 for ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights Giles Clarke/Getty A Louisiana inmate was scheduled to be the first ...