A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

Nitrogen hypoxia, a method of execution Arkansas lawmakers are considering adopting, makes for a torturous death, witnesses ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy ...

Amid drug shortages for lethal injection and legal challenges against the new methods, executions were paused for about 13 ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...