BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys for Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman have filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking justices to halt his execution ...

Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas despite last-ditch efforts by his legal team claiming the method violated his religious freedoms. Hoffman, who had been ...

Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

That attempt comes after the state resumed executions for the first time in 15 years: Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman in March by nitrogen gas. For death row inmates, the time between conviction ...

Florida executed Anthony Wainwright for the rape and murder of Carmen Gayheart. Alabama executed Greg Hunt shortly after for Karen Lane's rape and murder.

Convicted murderer and rapist Jessie Hoffman was executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana, and South Carolina brought back ...

Hunt's execution marks Alabama's third this year, on pace to match the six it carried out last year, and the fifth time it ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

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