A divided Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Jessie Hoffman, who was put to death on Tuesday night in Louisiana. Four justices would have put Hoffman’s execution on hold – one short of ...

Sewer District Superintendent Michael Reichel, one of the town’s longest-serving employees, is retiring this week after ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with the Supreme Court majority on a decision for a stay of execution for the first time this term ...

In Tuesday's Hoffman v. Westcott, the Court denied a stay of execution; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have granted a stay, but didn't write ...

CF Industries, the world's largest nitrogen fertilizer producer, boasts an economic moat with low-cost operations and ...

Cataumet resident William F. Grant has proposed a citizen petition for Annual Town Meeting in May to ban nitrogen-based ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana's execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas.

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method ...

Hoffman's execution marks Louisiana's first in 15 years as well as the Bayou State's first time using nitrogen hypoxia for ...

Family members of both executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. and Mary "Molly" Elliott, the woman Hoffman was convicted ...