The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person in 15 years to be executed by the state of Louisiana on Tuesday evening. The big ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the US after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Anti-death penalty advocates and representatives from many faiths called for an end to executions in Louisiana and wished ...

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

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman Jr. was put to death by nitrogen gas Tuesday night (March 18) in ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana carries out its first nitrogen gas execution on a man convicted of a killing decades ago, his lawyer says.

ANGOLA, La. — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Jessie Hoffman’s appeal in a 5-4 decision, clearing the way for Louisiana’s first execution ...