"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

When a conservative columnist says execution by the administration of pure nitrogen gas is a “cruel and unusual punishment,” ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came just one week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on March 18. Hoffman has shown a ...

A federal judge in Baton Rouge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop Louisiana from moving forward with its first nitrogen gas execution on March 18, though the state immediately moved to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - U.S. Chief District Judge Shelly Dick has blocked the State of Louisiana from carrying out the upcoming planned execution of an inmate using nitrogen hypoxia. Nitrogen ...

NOW. LOUISIANA EXECUTION CASE COULD END UP IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT IF IT PLAYS OUT IN THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT’S AFTER A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THE STATE FROM EXECUTING JESSE HOFFMAN BY ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a 29-page preliminary injunction Tuesday to stop state corrections officials from executing Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, at Louisiana State Penitentiary in ...