A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

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

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

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

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.

If signed into law by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the bill would make Arkansas the fourth state in the U.S. to allow ...

A judge has halted Louisiana’s first nitrogen hypoxia execution, but Gov. Jeff Landry says the method is a necessary deterrent to violent crime.

Companion animal euthanizations used to employ nitrogen hypoxia; however, after years of advocacy, all but two states have discontinued the practice either voluntarily or through legislation. The ...

A victory for opponents of Louisiana’s decision to execute a man using nitrogen hypoxia as a federal judge grants their ...

Alabama in 2024 became the first state to carry out a nitrogen gas execution. Now, at least two states are looking to follow ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued against the capital punishment method of nitrogen hypoxia in a Baton Rouge federal court on Friday. The hearing occurred a week after Hoffman filed a ...