Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. (September 1, 1978 – March 18, 2025) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in Louisiana for the 1996 rape and murder of Molly Elliott. On November 26, 1996, Hoffman, then 18, abducted the 28-year-old advertising executive in downtown New Orleans.

6 days ago · The execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr., convicted in the 1996 murder of a woman abducted from a New Orleans parking garage, was completed Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana ...

5 days ago · The Rev. Marika Hammet, who was a spiritual advisor to Jessie Hoffman, rings a memorial bell that was brought to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for the execution of Hoffman on Tuesday ...

6 days ago · Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead at 6:50 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas for 19 minutes through a fitted full-faced respirator mask while strapped to a gurney inside the execution ...

6 days ago · Lauren Sapp, center, deputy director of The Promise of Justice Initiative, hugs faith leaders and supporters of Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted of a 1996 murder of Mary “Molly” Elliott, outside Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., for Hoffman’s planned execution Tuesday, March 18, 2025.

6 days ago · Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the first in Louisiana in 15 years after the state struggled to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Hoffman was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. after a ...

6 days ago · Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman is the state’s first person to be executed with nitrogen gas after he raped and murdered 28-year-old Mary “Molly" Elliott in 1996.

6 days ago · “Jessie Hoffman suffered because the state chose to use the end of his life as an experiment,” his attorney, Samantha Pourciau, said in a written statement after his execution.

6 days ago · Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

6 days ago · After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S. Supreme Court, his death came at 6:50 p.m. -- nearly 20 minutes after ...