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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 -- ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

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

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving forward with the execution, which would have been Louisiana’s first ...