At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session propose changes that could affect cases moving forward amid a push to ...

Thank you for your excellent reporting on the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18 by the state of Louisiana at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I have been visiting Angola for over ...

Formerly incarcerated couple turned criminal justice reform advocates have released their Academy Award-nominated documentary ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorities said, adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during what one official ...

Uniformed officers from the Louisiana State Penitentiary sat in opposite ends of the room. There were two big pictures on the walls – one of Elijah on a flaming chariot and one of Daniel in the ...

“We want to work," said Ronald Marshall, who served time at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and now works as chief policy analyst at Voices of the Experienced, an advocacy group ...

The state of Louisiana is on something of a law-and-order binge these days. Governor Jeff Landry is hot to kill more people.

Hoffman, 46, was put to death at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for the 1996 killing of 28-year-old Mary "Molly" Elliot, and his death marks the first time nitrogen gas was used as an ...

and then built a facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary to carry out that method of killing. Hoffman’s legal team, which produced an expert who says Hoffman will feel like he’s drowning ...

Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday. Hoffman, 46, was ...