A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used ...

Louisiana Death Row Inmate Who Is Scheduled to Die by Nitrogen Hypoxia Challenges the Method BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a federal complaint and a motion seeking to block his execution ...

La. (WAFB) - Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St. Tammany Parish. Back when he was put on death row, the assumed ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A DeSoto Parish man who tortured and killed his stepson more than 30 years ago has died while on death row. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled for execution on March 17.

ANGOLA, La. — Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 17, has died of “natural causes” before he was to be executed, as our partners ...