Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for an execution planned next week. A federal judge has blocked ...

House Bill 1489, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw (R-Hermitage) and Sen. Blake Johnson (R-Corning), gives the state the option ...

Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia as his ...

Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie ...

Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution halted by federal judge - U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.