Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this year. Murrill said she expected the execution to go forward as planned and that ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...