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

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of death row inmate, Jessie ...

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

An Indiana judge is mandating sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, extending the ongoing legal challenge to a ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has overturned a lower court's injunction, paving the way for the execution of ...

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

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

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita appears to have signaled his defiance to a court order that would compel the Indiana ...

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

Those who oppose Louisiana using nitrogen gas for state executions have argued that the cruel and unusual aspect is why it is prohibited as a method of euthanasia for companion animals in 48 states.