A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he challenges the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia to carry out his death sentence.

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