He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by nitrogen gas because it violates his religious freedoms. Molly Elliott's ...

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Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday. Hoffman ...

ANGOLA, La. — Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen gas execution on a man convicted of a killing decades ago, his lawyer says. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to ...

Caroline Tillman/The Federal Public Defender's Office for the Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana Louisiana has executed a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, a first in the state's ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, using nitrogen gas for the first time amid Catholic criticism of both the death penalty itself and the mode of execution.

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Jessie Hoffman Jr. was executed in Louisiana on Tuesday. His lawyers tried to argue the method was unconstitutional ...

The method of using lethal gas to carry out an execution has recently shifted from cyanide to nitrogen. Throughout history, the states have used five different execution methods: lethal ...

Alabama first used nitrogen gas to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death last year, marking the first time a new method had been used in the U.S. since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.