A Louisiana death row inmate, set to be the first person in the state to be executed via a brutal new method, has pleaded for his sentence to be carried out using a more "humane" method. Jessie ...

Louisiana has unsealed its execution protocol as attorneys for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman seek to halt his March 18 execution, arguing the state’s nitrogen gas method is unconstitutional.

How Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution transpired 04:19. A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was ...

A death row inmate who had spent more than 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has died of an illness. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (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 ...

There are 56 inmates on Louisiana’s death row. Louisiana is following in the footsteps of Alabama, which has executed four people with nitrogen gas.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a federal complaint and a motion seeking to block his execution, ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose 1998 conviction for killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter was ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...