Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came just one week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on March 18. Hoffman has shown a ...
In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...
Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...
A federal judge in Baton Rouge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop Louisiana from moving forward with its first nitrogen gas execution on March 18, though the state immediately moved to ...
Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...
A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate ...