Louisiana Halts Nitrogen Gas Execution After Judge Agrees with Lawyers Claiming Method Akin to Torture
Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights ...
Judge blocks Louisiana's 1st nitrogen gas execution over possible 'pain and terror'
Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...
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Louisiana attorney general files motion to resume Jessie Hoffman execution
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed an emergency brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a judge halted ...
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
Death Row Inmate Who Robbed, Raped, Kidnapped And Killed A Woman Expects To Be Executed In A ‘Humane’ Way
Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...
Federal judge halts Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution
A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...
Federal judge halts execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman
BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, ...
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Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution halted for now following federal judge's ruling
Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie ...
Louisiana attorney general files emergency brief with Court of Appeals over execution case
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.
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Jessie Hoffman, set to be executed in March, challenges Louisiana's use of nitrogen gas
Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...
Texas, Louisiana both halted imminent executions on Tuesday. What's going on?
Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...
Judge Blocks Louisiana's First Nitrogen Gas Execution: 'Pain and Terror'
Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for ...