Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

Unless last-minute court decisions change the timeline, Jessie Hoffman Jr. will be the first person in 15 years to be ...

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...

Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie ...

A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate ...

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate's execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could ...

U.S. Chief District Judge Shelly Dick has blocked the State of Louisiana from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia.

U.S. Chief District Judge Shelly Dick has blocked the State of Louisiana from carrying out the upcoming planned execution of ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A federal judge has temporarily blocked Louisiana’s planned execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...