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

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method ...

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 ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus Tuesday when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with ...

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

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

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