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

Jessie Hoffman, who is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on March 18, has filed a new federal lawsuit challenging ...

In July 2024, the state legislature expanded its execution methods to include electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia, alongside ...

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

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

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

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

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

Jeff Landry is pushing Louisiana to resume executing death row prisoners ... scheduling execution dates for Jessie Hoffman ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

But, on March 18, Louisiana – after a decade-and-a-half death penalty moratorium – is set to execute a person this way. Jessie Hoffman has spent the better part of three decades behind bars at ...