A 46-year-old man convicted of rape and murder is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana on ...

A 46-year-old man convicted of rape and murder is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana, the first of four executions scheduled this week in the United States.

Hoffman is on death row for kidnapping Mary Elliott in New Orleans, before raping and killing her in St. Tammany Parish in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

According to a new court filing, Jesse Hoffman is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to prevent him from being executed by nitrogen gas, saying the method violates his religious freedom and Eighth ...

A district court judge in Baton Rouge Monday issued a temporary restraining order for Tuesday night’s planned execution of ...

Texaco, the American oil brand owned by Chevron, is being accused of releasing pollutants into the wetlands near Bayou ...

A judge has halted Tuesday's scheduled execution of a man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a New Orleans advertising ...

Hoffman and his legal team are fighting on the grounds of the method he is set to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a form of ...

A baton rouge judge issued a temporary restraining order on Monday ahead of a hearing set for Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

Louisiana is planning its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening. In a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme ...

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman is set to be executed at Angola on Tuesday night. A Baton Rouge judge will hear ...