A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

A prisoner scheduled to be executed in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in over two years has passed up ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said 39-year-old Shawn Dewon Callaway, from Auburn, was found dead inside his cell at the Lee ...

Nitrogen hypoxia, a method of execution Arkansas lawmakers are considering adopting, makes for a torturous death, witnesses ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy ...

Amid drug shortages for lethal injection and legal challenges against the new methods, executions were paused for about 13 ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...