A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came just one week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on March 18. Hoffman has shown a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Many of their loved ones, she said, were killed using gas. Today, Lewis is a member of the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, a New Orleans-area group decrying the state’s efforts to use nitrogen ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was ...

A federal judge in Baton Rouge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop Louisiana from moving forward with its first nitrogen gas execution on March 18, though the state immediately moved to ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights Giles Clarke/Getty A Louisiana inmate was scheduled to be the first ...

open image in gallery A federal judge in Louisiana has halted the state’s first ever death row execution by nitrogen gas, which was due to take place next week (AP2008) "The public has paramount ...

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next week with nitrogen gas. The New Orleans-based federal appeals court on Friday night vacated a Tuesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick of Louisiana's Middle District, who had ...

JONAH. JESSE HOFFMAN’S ATTORNEY SAYS EXECUTION BY NITROGEN GAS IS INHUMANE, AND THEY WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE END TO SAVE THEIR CLIENT. THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THAT LOUISIANA HAS ATTEMPTED A ...