Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...
Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...
"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...
Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...
A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...
Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came just one week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on March 18. Hoffman has shown a ...
U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick granted the preliminary ... to withhold their other drugs if Louisiana were to ignore those orders. Dick ruled that Hoffman would suffer irreparable harm ...
Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...