Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story included Jarrell Neal as a death row inmate. Neal's death sentence was thrown out by an appeals court in 2023. Louisiana is set to execute its first ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die by nitrogen gas in Louisiana, but the method has been hit with widespread criticism ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, who was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a ...

A British drugs mule grandmother on Indonesia's death row is so convinced she will be freed from prison that she has started given her clothes away to other inmates. Lindsay Sandiford ...

Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed, and kissed him in a coffin. Before that a glass screen ...

Convicted felon Marion “Suge” Knight Jr., 59, has fired the latest shot at Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus Jr., 53, in their dispute over the legendary Death Row Records. Knight co-founded ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr completed his death sentence yesterday (March 18), becoming the first person in Louisiana to be executed in ...

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Death in Paradise season 14 is now well underway on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with ex-EastEnders star Don Gilet playing the new leading man, Detective Inspector Mervin Wilson. It's all building up to a ...