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 ...

Jessie Hoffman has spent the better part of three decades behind bars at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison in the remote town of Angola. Now 46, Hoffman was sentenced to ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Jessie Hoffman, the death row inmate who could be the first man Louisiana puts to death by nitrogen gas, filed a new lawsuit late Tuesday seeking to stop his March 18 execution. The suit ...