Hours before he was executed, Jessie Hoffman Jr. meditated. He cried and laughed with his family. He played charades. And though Hoffman declined to make a public, final statement when he was strapped ...

The execution last week of Jessie Hoffman Jr. marked the end of a 15-year-long stretch in which the death penalty was on the books in Louisiana but not carried out. It also marked the beginning of a ...

“It went flawless,” Secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety Gary Westcott said. “There was nothing that happened incorrectly.” Nitrogen hypoxia was approved by the state legislature and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out ...

A Louisiana man was executed this week after a hard-fought battle by his legal team arguing that the method violated his religious freedom went all the way to the Supreme Court. Even more alarming is ...

(The Center Square) − The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has overturned a lower court's injunction, paving the way for the execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr., a convicted killer and rapist, ...