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.

The first person in the state of Louisiana scheduled ... to stop his upcoming execution. Jessie Hoffman, 46, has spent nearly his entire adult life on death row. In 1998, he was convicted and ...

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% ...

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 ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

a lawyer-turned-death penalty abolitionist, in the Montgomery Advertiser, part of the USA TODAY Network. Louisiana became the second state to use the method when it executed Jesse Hoffman in March ...

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.