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 ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed an emergency brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a judge halted a death row inmate’s execution.

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol to Hoffman, depriving him of his rights. It also alleges executing Hoffman ...

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 ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.