Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas ... a drug cocktail typically used for physician-assisted death, but neither of those methods is approved ...

specifically asking for death by a firing squad or a drug cocktail typically used for physician-assisted death. The only approved execution methods in Louisiana are nitrogen hypoxia, lethal ...