Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

A man who was serving in federal prison in Louisiana is now in Oklahoma to await execution later this year, but only because ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana man on death row is pleading with a judge not to be executed by gas just days before he's scheduled for his capital punishment. Jessie Hoffman is expected to be executed ...

It will be the first time in 15 years a firing squad has been used in the United States, and the first for South Carolina.

BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge hearing a challenge to Louisiana's death row protocols was in a quandary Friday: How can ...

This really is a legal issue that’s an open one that the Supreme Court has never considered in a full-length opinion,” Loyola ...