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.

Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie Hoffman Jr.'s execution.

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.

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Louisiana's first planned execution by nitrogen gas – scheduled to take place next week – has been halted by a federal judge.