A federal judge blocked Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over cruel and unusual punishment. The ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed an emergency brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a judge halted a death row inmate’s execution.

Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...

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

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

Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here ...

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