Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

In July 2024, the state legislature expanded its execution methods to include electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia, alongside ...

A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a federal complaint and a ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

Nitrogen gas is banned in Louisiana to euthanize dogs. The state plans to use it to kill a death row inmate next month - ...

A federal judge in the Middle District Court of Louisiana granted a motion to expedite consideration and reopening of the ...

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Friday reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state ...

Louisiana officials have not said whether ... warrants were signed scheduling the executions of Sepulvado and another inmate, Jessie Hoffman, for March 17 and 18, respectively.

Jessie Hoffman, convicted of first-degree murder in 1996, is slated for execution the following day. Hoffman initially challenged Louisiana's lethal injection protocol in 2012 on the grounds that ...