BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, ...

A federal judge has blocked the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, citing concerns that nitrogen hypoxia would ...

A federal judge blocked Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over cruel and unusual punishment. The ...

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

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

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

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

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed an emergency brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a judge halted ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.

In a developing story, the execution is postponed for an inmate on Louisiana’s death row due to an appeal of the method of ...