Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the method. Here's a breakdown of his criminal history.

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

The Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center is hosting its 15th Annual Circle of Support Walk on Saturday, March 22.

When a conservative columnist says execution by the administration of pure nitrogen gas is a “cruel and unusual punishment,” ...

A shooting on Saturday morning, March 15, left one person injured, officials said. The Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of Mary ‘Molly’ Elliot in St. Tammany ...

Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...

For two days in Japan, it’s the Hanshin Tigers who have have looked like the class of the National League. In another sign ...

A massive fire that broke out early Sunday in a nightclub in North Macedonia’s southern town of Kocani has killed 51 people and injured about 100 more, interior ...