Louisiana is set to execute a man using nitrogen gas for the first time. This execution will be the second in the United States using this method. The decision has led to legal challenges and debates ...

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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 ...

On Tuesday the state did just that, carrying out its first execution since 2010. It used nitrogen gas, a method that was first used by Alabama last year and that was legalized by Louisiana ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Louisiana to carry out its first planned execution of a condemned inmate by nitrogen gas on Tuesday, a method his lawyers warned would inflict "psychological torture." ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening ... what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. Witnesses to the execution said Hoffman appeared ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening ... what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. Witnesses to the execution said Hoffman appeared ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening ... what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening ... what one official characterized as a “flawless” execution. It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the ...

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