Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

Louisiana officials are planning to carry out its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday after a judge denied death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's eleventh-hour arguments that it violates his ...

A Louisiana death row inmate on Tuesday was executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used before in the state. "Louisiana has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the ...

Condemned inmates in the state can choose between lethal injection, electrocution or nitrogen gas. Louisiana is just one of four states that authorizes execution by nitrogen hypoxia, a method ...

(MENAFN) Louisiana carried out its first death punishment execution in 15 years on ... The procedure involves administering nitrogen gas to the inmate via a mask, causing death due to a lack ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen ... adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. Witnesses to the execution said Hoffman ...

(AP) — On the day that ... authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. Alabama first used the lethal gas to put Kenneth ...

Now that Arkansas has officially approved nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ...

(AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled ... is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening using nitrogen gas, which would be the first time Louisiana ...