Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued ...

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JONAH. JESSE HOFFMAN’S ATTORNEY SAYS EXECUTION BY NITROGEN GAS IS INHUMANE, AND THEY WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE END TO SAVE THEIR CLIENT. THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THAT LOUISIANA HAS ATTEMPTED A ...

Many of their loved ones, she said, were killed using gas. Today, Lewis is a member of the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, a New Orleans-area group decrying the state’s efforts to use nitrogen ...

They even released a bottled Guinness in 1978, which required the use of an “initiator” device to manually add the nitrogen gas. Guinness got closer in 1989 by affixing a nitrogen-filled ...

Jessie Hoffman is trying to halt his March 18 execution His lawyers say nitrogen gas protocol is shrouded in secrecy Louisiana attorney general has vowed to carry out the execution A death row ...

open image in gallery A federal judge in Louisiana has halted the state’s first ever death row execution by nitrogen gas, which was due to take place next week (AP2008) "The public has paramount ...