Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

As the state resumes executions of death row prisoners, a bill in the legislature aims to cut back on the time people convicted of crimes can spend trying to reduce or overturn their sentences, and it ...

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

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 ...

As Louisiana prepares for its first execution in 15 years, lawyers for a death row inmate are seeking a last-minute court order to stop the execution from happening. At such a critical moment in US ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday recalled execution warrants that a judge had signed for two death row inmates who were ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill says that she expects at least four people on Louisiana's death row to be executed this year. On Monday, Hoffman's attorneys filed a slew of additional challenges in ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.

Attorney General Liz Murrill says that she expects at least four people on Louisiana's death row to be executed this year. After court battles earlier this month, attorneys for Hoffman are turning ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.