A federal judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked the usage of nitrogen gas in executions ... inmates. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a 29-page preliminary injunction Tuesday to ...

A federal judge on Friday refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S., saying the inmate had ...

(AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the death penalty from being ...

Louisiana officials are planning to carry out its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday after a judge denied death row inmate Jessie ... denied their request to stop the execution.

Hours earlier at a hearing Tuesday, a 19th Judicial District Court Judge Richard “Chip” Moore also declined to stop the execution ... Each inmate put to death using nitrogen in Alabama ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – 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.

(AP) — Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state's first execution by nitrogen gas.