A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Jessie Hoffman will be executed tomorrow evening by nitrogen hypoxia at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. On the night before Thanksgiving Day in 1996, Jessie Hoffman kidnapped, robbed, and ...

The wildest show in the south returns at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with spring shows on Saturday and Sunday, ...

WEST FELICIANA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana Parish. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46 ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

About 50 anti-death penalty advocates protested outside the gates of Angola state prison, holding a vigil for Hoffman as the state began his execution at around 6:00 p.m. local time. According to ...

Within the walls of Angola, the sprawling state prison complex located deep within rural West Feliciana Parish, the mood among prisoners and staff — particularly those who live and work in prox ...

FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) An undated photo provided by The Promise of Justice ...