US set to execute four death row inmates this week

Supreme Court rejects request to block Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas , which is scheduled for Tuesday evening. Jessie Hoffman Jr.

Death Row Inmate To Be Executed In ‘Torturous’ Way—Even Animals Don't Get This Inhuman Treatment

A 46-year-old death row inmate is due to be executed today in a way that legal experts have deemed "torturous" and inhumane. The mode of execution is said to be so distressing that even animals are forbidden from being euthanized this way.

Not even people as guilty as Jessie Hoffman should be executed

Jessie Hoffman, 46, will be the first Louisiana Death Row inmate executed in 15 years. His attorneys object to the state's plan to use nitrogen gas to kill him.

Death row killer to be executed today using controversial method banned on cats and dogs

A death row killer is set to be executed with a controversial method that his state bans using on cats and dogs

Louisiana to execute prisoner using nitrogen gas banned for animal euthanasia

The US state of Louisiana is set to carry out its first execution in 15 years using nitrogen gas, a method that is banned under the state’s own laws for euthanizing cats and dogs. Unless the US Supreme Court intervenes, Jessie Hoffman, a 46-year-old prisoner, is scheduled to be executed in Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. Hoffman was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of advertising executive Mary Elliott. …

What to know ahead of Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution scheduled for tonight

Louisiana is scheduled to use nitrogen gas in an execution for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the expected execution of Jessie Hoffman, Jr., age 46.