A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the death ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carr ...

The state of Louisiana carried out its first execution ... He was the state’s first inmate put to death using this method. Hoffman argued the state’s new mode of execution violates the 8th ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade, and the first by nitrogen gas, but the inmate’s attorneys are trying to stop it.