Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman is set to be executed at Angola on Tuesday night. A Baton Rouge judge will hear ...

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that nitrogen gas violates his ...

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to ...

A baton rouge judge issued a temporary restraining order on Monday ahead of a hearing set for Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

Hoffman and his legal team are fighting on the grounds of the method he is set to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a form of ...

Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it ...

Dozens of people gathered on the lawn across from the Governor's Mansion on Sunday afternoon to oppose the nitrogen-gas ...

Hoffman is on death row for kidnapping Mary Elliott in New Orleans, before raping and killing her in St. Tammany Parish in ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...