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 ...

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

"The thing that we need to remember is that nitrogen hypoxia is authorized, but it's not the only method of execution available," he said. States like Louisiana turned to nitrogen hypoxia or other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana Corrections Secretary Gary Westcott selected nitrogen hypoxia as Hoffman's method of execution after officials have had trouble procuring the necessary lethal injection drugs following ...

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

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials ...

Louisiana has three approved execution methods, including lethal injection as the default and electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia as alternatives. Cecelia Kappel, Hoffman's attorney, applauded Dick ...

Louisiana Death Row Inmate Who Is Scheduled to Die by Nitrogen Hypoxia Challenges the Method BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person ...