On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

Lawyers race against time to halt Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years - It will be the first time Louisiana has put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas ...

A Louisiana inmate found guilty of raping and murdering a New Orleans woman is scheduled to be the first person executed via nitrogen gas in that state in 15 years — despite the controversy surroundin ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die by nitrogen gas in Louisiana, but the method has been hit with widespread criticism ...

Attorneys for death row prisoner Jessie Hoffman filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court late Sunday night, seeking to block ...

Louisiana's protocol says death row inmates will be forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a respirator mask for 15 minutes or for 5 minutes after the inmate's heart rate reaches a flatline on an EKG ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely ...

A 46-year-old man convicted of rape and murder is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana on ...

Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Since the ...

Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it ...

Hoffman is on death row for kidnapping Mary Elliott in New Orleans, before raping and killing her in St. Tammany Parish in ...

Nitrogen hypoxia requires pumping pure nitrogen through a full-facepiece respirator until the person dies by lack of oxygen.