A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.

Hoffman's attorneys are appealing to the United States Supreme Court to halt the execution. However, the court declined to intervene in the nation's first nitrogen hypoxia death row execution in 2024.

The inmate claimed nitrogen hypoxia would interfere with his religious ... scrutiny by anti-death penalty organizations and the United Nations, which last year determined the method could ...

The court on Tuesday denied without comment Jessie Hoffman's last-ditch appeal arguing that Louisiana's planned use of nitrogen hypoxia violates ... conducted in the United States so far.

Hoffman is the seventh person to be executed in the United States this year, and the second by nitrogen hypoxia. Earlier this month, Brad Keith Sigmon was executed in South Carolina by firing ...