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 ...

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

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 - ...

Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for ...

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 ...

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.

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