Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came stopping the execution came just one ... gas over lethal injection and the electric chair, while Louisiana made the decision to execute Hoffman ...

Some 13 years on from that landmark case, a Louisiana teenager accused of murder made headlines when he survived a ...

The State of Louisiana is locked in a legal battle over what would ... Lain says it's not uncommon for states to set ways to execute people - hanging, the electric chair - then try something else.

Louisiana officials had ... it was eclipsed by others – namely the electric chair and, eventually, lethal injection, which remains the dominant execution method in the United States.

Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas despite last-ditch efforts by his legal team claiming the method violated his religious freedoms. Hoffman, who had been convicted ...

The State of Louisiana is locked in a legal battle ... for states to set ways to execute people - hanging, the electric chair - then try something else. CORINNA LAIN: And so, when it becomes ...