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

The death penalty in Louisiana is at the forefront of conversation once again as a judge has blocked the state’s first ...

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

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

As The Washington Post notes, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits any entity receiving federal funds from discriminating against people with disabilities. Section 504 also says ...

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

It was the second scheduled execution in the US halted on Tuesday after a federal judge stopped Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was to take place next week.

The execution of Larry Roy, dubbed the ‘Cheneyville Slasher,’ has been pushed back, according to Rapides Parish District ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...

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 blocked the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, citing concerns that nitrogen hypoxia would ...

In a developing story, the execution is postponed for an inmate on Louisiana’s death row due to an appeal of the method of that planned execution, nitrogen gas.