While some states have passed or are considering legislation to allow nitrogen gas executions, it is uncertain how widely the method will be used. Public support for the death penalty is declining ...

When Louisiana carries out the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18, he will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a gas mask and forced to breathe in nitrogen gas until his heart stops.

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 is scheduled to use nitrogen gas in an execution for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the expected execution of Jessie Hoffman, Jr., age 46. Louisiana state law ...

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 ...

The state of Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. The vote was 5-4 with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joining ...

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 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 ...

18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is ...

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-year hiatus.