A 46-year-old man convicted of rape and murder is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana on ...

Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

A district court judge in Baton Rouge Monday issued a temporary restraining order for Tuesday night’s planned execution of ...

A baton rouge judge issued a temporary restraining order on Monday ahead of a hearing set for Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman is set to be executed at Angola on Tuesday night. A Baton Rouge judge will hear ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that nitrogen gas violates his ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to ...

A man is dead after being struck by a vehicle in Slidell over the weekend. The New Orleans Police Department is investigating ...

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

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