Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in a briefing after the execution. He inhaled pure nitrogen gas through a mask ...

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 ...

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana’s execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana after the state struggled to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Hoffman, who was convicted of the rape and murder of 28 ...

A Louisiana death row inmate became the first person to be executed by nitrogen gas in the state's history. Jessie Hoffman was convicted in the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of 28-year-old ...

(MENAFN) Louisiana carried ... has executed four prisoners with nitrogen gas since the previous year. The procedure involves administering nitrogen gas to the inmate via a mask, causing death ...

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 ...

(Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate Jessie ... Louisiana’s nitrogen gas protocol follows ...