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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

odorless gas causes asphyxiation as someone breathes nitrogen instead of oxygen. Louisiana's protocol says death row inmates will be forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a respirator mask for ...