Louisiana's execution protocols have not been made public — even though the state plans to put a man to death using nitrogen ...

Arkansas currently only allows executions by lethal injection. If this bill becomes law, the state would join a small group of others permitting nitrogen hypoxia.

As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...

Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, who is scheduled to be executed on March 18, have asked U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick of Louisiana's Middle District to unseal the state's execution protocol so that ...

A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s execution protocol is a public record, in a case that could decide whether the state performs its first-ever execution by nitrogen gas later ...

The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade, and the first by nitrogen gas, but the inmate’s attorneys are trying to stop it.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals then ordered a stay on the judge’s decision, which could make the execution of convicted murderer Jessie Hoffman imminent. Hoffman’s attorneys have now filed ...