The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

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, ...

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he ...

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

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

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...

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