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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died from "natural causes," the state corrections department said. He was convicted of murder in ...

Christopher Sepulvado, the 81-year-old man who was facing execution next month for the 1992 murder of his stepson, died ...

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

Jessie Hoffman, 46, will now be the first to face the new execution method on March 18. Hoffman was convicted for the 1996 murder of Mary “Molly” Elliot. Hoffman, Sepulvado and seven other ...