A death row inmate in Louisiana 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 humane method.

Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie ...

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

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

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. Arkansas was added to the list ...

Lawyers also claim the method causes a sense of suffocation, violating constitutional rights. Louisiana Corrections Secretary Gary Westcott selected nitrogen hypoxia as the execution method. The state ...

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

Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a full-face respirator mask, similar to th ...

March 19 (UPI) --Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and ...

Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr. by nitrogen hypoxia Tuesday night, making him the first person killed in the state by this method. Photo courtesy of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill ...

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 ...

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