A convicted killer scheduled to be gassed to death in Louisiana Tuesday night had his last-minute appeal to save his life was turned down — paving the way for him to become the state’s first execution ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman was executed with nitrogen gas on 18 March 2025, after being convicted of the 1996 rape and ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely untried method.

Convicted killer Jessie Hoffman ... an advertising executive. The gas mask used in the nitrogen execution and the gurney the people are strapped to. Louisiana state courts Death by nitrogen ...

DEATH row killer Jessie Hoffman has been executed with nitrogen gas in a 19-minute ordeal that left him “twitching and jerking”. The 46-year-old declined to make a final statement in ...

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was pumped through a gas mask to essentially suffocate a death row inmate. The previous four were conducted in Alabama, with the first nitrogen execution in ...

When Louisiana carries out the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18, he will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a gas mask and forced to breathe in nitrogen gas until his heart stops.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also ...

One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, presented to us in 1990 for our 10th (tin) wedding anniversary. I wondered ...