US set to execute four death row inmates this week

Supreme Court rejects request to block Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas , which is scheduled for Tuesday evening. Jessie Hoffman Jr.

Death Row Inmate To Be Executed In ‘Torturous’ Way—Even Animals Don't Get This Inhuman Treatment

A 46-year-old death row inmate is due to be executed today in a way that legal experts have deemed "torturous" and inhumane. The mode of execution is said to be so distressing that even animals are forbidden from being euthanized this way.

Four death row inmates set to be executed this week

Four death row inmates are scheduled to be executed this week in the US, including one by the controversial method of nitrogen gas.

Inmate to be executed by nitrogen gas raises ethical concerns

Jessie Hoffman (46) was convicted of rape and murder in 1996 and will be sentenced to death by nitrogen gas this week as the first of four scheduled executions.

Not even people as guilty as Jessie Hoffman should be executed

Jessie Hoffman, 46, will be the first Louisiana Death Row inmate executed in 15 years. His attorneys object to the state's plan to use nitrogen gas to kill him.

Death row killer to be executed today using controversial method banned on cats and dogs

A death row killer is set to be executed with a controversial method that his state bans using on cats and dogs