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

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

The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...

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

Though “Louisiana officials argue that their execution plan is ‘similar but improved’ compared to Alabama’s,” Avery and ...

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

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