It was the day before Thanksgiving, and Molly Elliott was getting ready to go out on a date night with her husband. The 28-year-old advertising executive left her office in the French Quarter in ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Mary "Molly" Elliott. (Caroline Tillman/Federal Public Defender's Office For the ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Mary "Molly" Elliott. (Caroline Tillman/Federal Public Defender's Office For the ...

Jessie Hoffman, who was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of Molly Elliott, a 28-year-old advertising executive, will be the first person executed in Louisiana in 15 years. A district court ...

Hoffman was on death row for the murder of 28-year-old advertising executive Mary “Molly” Elliott in New Orleans nearly three decades ago, per the AP. Hoffman was 18 at the time of the crime. The ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Mary "Molly" Elliott. (Caroline Tillman/Federal Public Defender's Office For the Middle ...

Hoffman declined to make a final statement in the execution chamber. He was convicted of the murder of Mary “Molly” Elliott, a 28-year-old advertising executive who was killed in 1996.