Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to death in 1996 at the age of 18 for the rape and murder of advertising executive Mollie Elliott. He has been on death row ever since ...
A convicted killer scheduled to be gassed to death in Louisiana Tuesday night had his last-minute appeal to save his life was turned down — paving the way for him to become the state’s first execution ...
It will be the first time the new execution method, using nitrogen gas to put someone to death, is used in Louisiana ... was first used to execute Kenneth Smith in Alabama, fervent debate ...
(Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled ... In January and February, Alabama executed Kenneth Smith and Alan Miller using nitrogen gas, both ...
Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this year ... Alabama first used the lethal gas to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death last ...