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 ...

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, in a life he’d mostly spent on death row.

The day before Thanksgiving 1996, 18-year-old Jessie Hoffman, a valet at the New Orleans parking garage where Mary “Molly” Elliott parked for work, kidnapped the recently married 28-year-old ...

UPDATE (March 18, 2025 8:51 p.m. E.T.): The state of Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Tuesday evening with nitrogen gas. The Associated Press reports that, according to Louisiana authorities ...

Three hours before he was to be murdered by the State of Louisiana, Jessie Hoffman greeted me with a strong handshake and an embrace. He stared deep into my eyes and thanked me for coming.

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 ...

Family members of both executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. and Mary "Molly" Elliott, the woman Hoffman was convicted of raping and murdering, issued statements Tuesday night in the wake ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to practice his Buddhist breathing techniques.

As Louisiana prepares for its first execution in 15 years, lawyers for a death row inmate are seeking a last-minute court order to stop the execution from happening. At such a critical moment in US ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr, 46, is scheduled to be executed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on March 18. He was previously sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape and murder of 28-year-old Mary ...