A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

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

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...

A federal judge has blocked the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, citing concerns that nitrogen hypoxia would ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...

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

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

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol to Hoffman, depriving him of his rights. It also alleges executing Hoffman ...

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

A death row inmate in Louisiana 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 humane ...