Topic - Jessie Hoffman

He is a Buddhist and claimed the method could interfere with his religious breathing techniques.

Jessie Hoffman executed with nitrogen gas after Supreme Court declines to intervene →

He argues the state's new mode of execution — he would be the first Louisiana prisoner executed under the protocol — violates the 8th Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.

Death row inmate petitions Supreme Court to stop 'cruel and unusual' nitrogen gas execution →