The Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murril’s office announced on Monday that it will lead the prosecution in the ...

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

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

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

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

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...

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

Two petitions opposing the death penalty and the use of nitrogen gas were handed over ... This will be the first execution in ...

Effective immediately, Nathan Hochman is rescinding the prior administration’s policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the ...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in ...