A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights ...

Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution ...

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

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A federal judge has temporarily blocked Louisiana’s planned execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy ...

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

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...