Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...
A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate ...
Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...
A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...
The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...
After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...
House Bill 1489, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw (R-Hermitage) and Sen. Blake Johnson (R-Corning), gives the state the option ...
The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.