Louisiana ends 15-year death penalty drought with nitrogen gas execution
Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with ...
Louisiana death row killer Jessie Hoffman becomes state’s first nitrogen gas execution
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...
The Times Shreveport on MSN13d
As Louisiana is set to resume executions, these 55 people are on death row
The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.
Louisiana puts man to death in state's first nitrogen gas execution
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...
WWNO12d
Louisiana executes Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen gas in 1st use of death penalty in 15 years
With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...
The Advocate13d
Live updates: Louisiana executes death row inmate Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas
In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...
WRKF13d
Anti-death penalty activists protest Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution scheduled for Tuesday
Two petitions opposing the death penalty and the use of nitrogen gas were handed over ... This will be the first execution in ...
Louisiana executes man by controversial nitrogen gas. Is it legal in Florida? See state's methods
Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas or firing squads?
Dayton Daily News13d
Louisiana puts man to death in its first nitrogen gas execution, his lawyer says
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. Arkansas was added to the ...
LA district attorney allows prosecutors to seek death penalty again
Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in ...
The Death Penalty Returns to Los Angeles
LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that county prosecutors will once again be permitted to seek the death penalty.