A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order Tuesday setting the execution date. His execution had been scheduled ...

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.

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus.

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution since 2010. By Rick Rojas and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Rick Rojas ...

NOW. LOUISIANA EXECUTION CASE COULD END UP IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT IF IT PLAYS OUT IN THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT’S AFTER A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THE STATE FROM EXECUTING JESSE HOFFMAN BY ...

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 ...

A Louisiana death row inmate on Tuesday was executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used before in the state. "Louisiana has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the ...