"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

The crew of traffickers conducted transactions in very public places like Tanger Outlets mall in Gonzales, Walmart parking ...

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 ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a 29-page preliminary injunction Tuesday to stop state corrections officials from executing Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, at Louisiana State Penitentiary in ...

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

The New Orleans-based federal appeals court on Friday night vacated a Tuesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick of Louisiana's Middle District, who had blocked the state from moving ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

Judge Shelly Dick has heard the cries of those ... On Tuesday, federal Judge Shelley Dick blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for the execution. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing ...

A federal judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked the usage of nitrogen gas in executions, ruling the new method could ...