BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued ...

A federal judge has blocked the execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, citing concerns that nitrogen hypoxia would cause severe psychological pain and violate his constitutional rights.

Federal district judge Shelly Dick was absolutely right on March 11 to delay the intended March 18 execution of convicted murderer Jessie Hoffman Jr. Hoffman has made a compelling argument that ...