What is it like to be executed by nitrogen gas? Dr. Jonathan Groner, a medical ethicist who studies capital punishment, has ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed an emergency brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a judge halted ...

Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Jews Against Gassing Coalition is a New Orleans-area group decrying Louisiana's efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie Hoffman Jr.'s execution.

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.

Judy Wells, coordinator for the Van Buren County 911 call and dispatch center was the speaker for the March 5 Fairfield Bay ...