Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the ...

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

Authorities said the nitrogen gas flowed for 19 minutes during ... s death row to be executed this year. "The last execution here in Louisiana was in 2010 of Gerald Bordelon, a convicted murderer ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Louisiana prepares for its first execution in 15 years, lawyers for a death row inmate are seeking a last-minute court order to stop the execution from happening. At such a critical moment in US ...

Louisiana's first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward next week after a federal appeals court vacated a ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week. U.S.