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

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

A federal judge has blocked the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, citing concerns that nitrogen hypoxia would ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane ...

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who is scheduled to become the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas, testified in federal court on Friday to ask that the state find another way. Hoffman, 46 ...