Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening, his attorneys were hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade and the first by nitrogen gas, but the inmate’s attorneys are trying to stop it.

(AP) — A federal judge on Friday refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S., saying the ...

(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 penalty from being ...

Louisiana's first execution ... injunction to stop Hoffman from being executed with nitrogen gas, ruling that the method could cause "pain and terror" in condemned inmates. However, the U.S ...

Hours earlier at a hearing Tuesday, a 19th Judicial District Court Judge Richard “Chip” Moore also declined to stop the execution ... Each inmate put to death using nitrogen in Alabama ...

(AP) — Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state's first execution by nitrogen gas.