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

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

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening — the state's first execution in 15 years and its first using the largely-untested method — after a raging ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Jessie Hoffman’s appeal in a 5-4 decision, clearing the way for Louisiana’s first execution ...

Around 50 friends, family members and supporters of Jessie Hoffman Jr., gathered outside of Angola on a warm and breezy Tuesday evening to pray for him and commemorate his life as the state put ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...