Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a lower judge’s ruling Friday.

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on an indisputably more painful method of execution as its proposed alternative,

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.