Governor Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill say they want to clear Louisiana’s backlog of death row ...

A trial has been delayed again for a Baton Rouge man accused of murdering local civil rights activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph in ...

Hoffman was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. after a "flawless" execution, according to Gary Westcott, secretary of the ...

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Tuesday, it's first in 15 years. There are 56 other inmates on death row in the state. Here's where they're from.

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.

Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie ...

The country’s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now been used to execute four people in the state. If Hoffman’s execution doesn’t get halted, Louisiana ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a federal complaint and a motion seeking to block his execution ...

Jessie Hoffman, the death row inmate who could be the first man Louisiana puts to death by ... three others by nitrogen gas: Alan Eugene Miller, Carey Dale Grayson and Demetrius Terrence Frazier.

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.