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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana's first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward next week ... ruling that the method could cause "pain and terror" in condemned inmates. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

(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 ...

Louisiana plans to use the new method to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has ... Each inmate put to death using ...

The bill, HB 6, authorized nitrogen gas executions and reauthorized electrocution as available execution methods ... of the state’s death row inmates. Louisiana “has failed to uphold the ...

(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 ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen ... adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. It was the fifth time nitrogen gas ...