Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas.

Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom for a 2005 murder, marking the state's first execution of the year amid a week of multiple ...

Jessie Hoffman was executed on March 18 after a hard-fought legal battle went all the way to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday evening, March 18, the state of Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr., putting him to death with nitrogen gas.

The state executed convicted murderer-rapist Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night (March 18). Hoffman was the first inmate executed in Louisiana in the past 15 years and the first put to death by ...

Louisiana conducted its first execution in nearly 15 years by executing a man who killed a woman from Arizona.

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Aaron Gunches, who had dropped legal efforts to halt his execution, was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of Ted Price, ...

Nitrogen gas has been used in four other executions, each in the state of Alabama, where the method — also known as nitrogen ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott.

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...