The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt Alabama from proceeding with the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that ...

Alabama fields heavy criticism for nitrogen gas execution 01:56. BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to ...

How Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution transpired 04:19. Alan Eugene Smith, the second death row inmate set to die by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama this year, on Sept. 26, said in his own appeal ...

A federal judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked the usage of nitrogen gas in executions, ruling the new method could cause "pain and terror" to condemned inmates.

Grayson is expected to be the third death row inmate in the nation to be killed by nitrogen hypoxia. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr., of the Middle District of Alabama, appointed by ...

Louisiana has unsealed its execution protocol as attorneys for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman seek to halt his March 18 execution, arguing the state’s nitrogen gas method is unconstitutional.

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came just one week before Jessie Hoffman, 46, was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola on March 18 for the ...

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Louisiana's first execution in 15 years after lawyers for the condemned man argued a new method known as nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ...

Louisiana has unsealed its execution protocol as attorneys for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman seek to halt his March 18 execution, arguing the state’s nitrogen gas method is unconstitutional.