The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade, and the first by nitrogen gas, but the inmate’s attorneys are trying to stop it.

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a ...

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...

On February 20, the state told Hoffman that his execution would be through lethal nitrogen hypoxia gas, a new execution ...

This is a state that hasn't executed anybody in 15 years, and suddenly there’s this rush to kill,’ Jessie Hoffman’s attorney ...

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

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

After a 15-year break of death by execution in Louisiana, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections scheduled two ...

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has paused a judge’s decision to reopen the execution protocol challenge for death row inmates.

Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in ...