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 ...

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

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

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

Within days of the governor’s announcement of the new protocol, warrants were signed scheduling the executions of Sepulvado and another inmate, Jessie Hoffman, for March 17 and 18, respectively.

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died.

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

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 ...