Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

This is a state that hasn't executed anybody in 15 years, and suddenly there’s this rush to kill,’ Jessie Hoffman’s attorney ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a ...

But, on March 18, Louisiana – after a decade-and-a-half death penalty moratorium – is set to execute a person this way. Jessie Hoffman has spent the better part of three decades behind bars at ...

Jessie Smith. A judge in St. Tammany Parish set the date for Hoffman, 46, who is slated to become the first death row prisoner to be executed in Louisiana since 2010, and the first using nitrogen ...

On February 20, the state told Hoffman that his execution would be through lethal nitrogen hypoxia gas, a new execution ...

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...

A federal judge in the Middle District Court of Louisiana granted a motion to expedite consideration and reopening of the ...

Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...