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 ...

Louisiana's first planned execution by nitrogen gas – scheduled to take place next week – has been halted by a federal judge.

Thurman was extradited to Baton Rouge and was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a charge of felony criminal ...

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for an execution planned next week. A federal judge has blocked ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman pleads not guilty Tuesday to a felony, after allegedly getting abortion pills from ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.