Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.

A victory for opponents of Louisiana’s decision to execute a man using nitrogen hypoxia as a federal judge grants their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued nitrogen hypoxia is cruel and unusual punishment and an infringement on his freedom to practice religion.