Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

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

Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

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

A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen gas, a method never used in the state before.

In 2024, Alabama became the first state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas when it put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana ... Hoffman’s execution in a 5-4 vote just moments before he was put to death. Hoffman’s lawyers argued that breathing the nitrogen gas would ...