"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on an indisputably more painful method of execution as its proposed alternative,

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned next week after a federal appeals court overturned a lower judge’s ruling Friday.

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he challenges the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia to carry out his death sentence.