Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

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

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie Hoffman Jr.'s execution.

If signed into law by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the bill would make Arkansas the fourth state in the U.S. to allow ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for an execution planned next week. A federal judge has blocked ...

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...