Musher Jessie Holmes has won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Bundled-up well wishers lined a street along the Bering Sea coastline in the early morning darkness Friday, cheering him across the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome.

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star on “Life Below Zero,” won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Friday morning, crossing under the burled arch in Nome, Alaska, around 2:55 a.m.

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to block it earlier this month.

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that nitrogen gas violates his constitutional and religious rights. The state says the execution should proceed.

Unless last-minute court decisions change the timeline, Jessie Hoffman Jr. will be the first person in 15 years to be executed by the state of Louisiana. The big picture: State officials plan to execute Hoffman by nitrogen hypoxia,