Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of Mary ‘Molly’ Elliot in St. Tammany ...

When a conservative columnist says execution by the administration of pure nitrogen gas is a “cruel and unusual punishment,” ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

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

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

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...