Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...

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

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

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

A Louisiana inmate found guilty of raping and murdering a New Orleans woman is scheduled to be the first person executed via ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, marking the state’s return to capital ...

Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the ...

ANGOLA, La. — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, ...

The man’s lawyers, in a last-ditch appeal ... respirator mask fitted tightly on him. Pure nitrogen gas was then pumped into the mask, forcing him to breathe it in and depriving him of the ...

Louisiana's mask is a full-face respirator similar ... Zivot, a lethal injection researcher who has studied the autopsy of a man killed by nitrogen gas, said he believes Antognini's claim is ...