Columnist Will Sutton looks at the execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr., with an eye on two journalists who saw something most of ...

Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for ...

A prosecutor told jurors Jessie Hoffman had "ice water in his veins," but what's colder than keeping a man in a cage for ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

People still say, "That’s not the Jessie I knew." But most didn’t know what he endured at home – and that’s likely what drove ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

After spending 26 years on death row and 28 years after he murdered Molly Elliot, he became the first Louisiana inmate ...

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr. is pictured while he was on death row for a 1996 New Orleans abduction, rape and murder. Jessie Hoffman Jr. is pictured while he was on death row for a 1996 New Orleans ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...

U.S. Supreme Court will not stop execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Oliver Thomas currently serves as ...