Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Nitrogen gas has been used in four other executions, each in the state of Alabama, where the method — also known as nitrogen ...

Louisiana's protocol says death row inmates will be forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a respirator mask for 15 minutes or for 5 minutes after the inmate's heart rate reaches a flatline on an EKG ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation allowing the state to carry out executions using nitrogen gas.

In a failed last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for condemned inmate Jessie Hoffman had argued that ...