Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.
A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for an execution planned next week. A federal judge has blocked ...
A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...
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 ...
Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution halted by federal judge - U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary ...
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 Hoffman Jr. argued that the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia as his ...
Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued nitrogen hypoxia is cruel and unusual punishment and an infringement on his freedom to practice religion.