ANGOLA, La. — Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen gas execution on a man convicted of a killing decades ago, his lawyer says. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to ...

Louisiana put a condemned man to death using nitrogen gas in its first execution since 2010, making it only the second state to administer the controversial method. The execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr.

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 ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Tuesday, all in Alabama. Last year, the method was used to execute Carey Dale Grayson for the killing of Vickie DeBlieux ...

The method of using lethal gas to carry out an execution has recently shifted from cyanide to nitrogen. Throughout history, the states have used five different execution methods: lethal ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15 ...

They sent sprays of room temperature water into a chamber filled with nitrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonia gases—a.k.a. the atmosphere of early Earth. The team found that this reactive ...

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Jr. using nitrogen gas, marking its first execution since 2010. Hoffman's lawyers sought to halt the execution, citing religious and constitutional concerns.

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by nitrogen gas because it violates his religious freedoms. Molly Elliott's ...

Arkansas became the fifth state to authorize nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution Tuesday, after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation codifying the controversial method ...

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 ...