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 ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to practice his Buddhist breathing techniques.

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 ...

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. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 — currently being blocked by a federal judge — business and faith leaders have complained.

Louisiana dismissed Hoffman’s concerns about nitrogen gas executions, stating that the method is ... after struggling to obtain lethal injection drugs. During the execution, the inmate is fitted in a ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...