Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

In a news release sent out last October, the Department of Corrections said Hooper planned to retire in September 2025.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

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

The Louisiana State Penitentiary held a press conference after the execution, during which state officials spoke. According to the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections Gary ...

Jessie Hoffman was put to death at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, becoming the first person in the state executed ...

Louisiana Corrections Secretary Gary Westcott selected nitrogen hypoxia as Hoffman's method of execution after officials have had trouble procuring the necessary lethal injection drugs following ...

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...

"We followed the protocol of Alabama," Louisiana Corrections Secretary Gary Westcott said. He called Hoffman's execution by nitrogen gas "flawless." That execution method — a source of deep ...