It was an all too familiar scene in Starke during the March 20 execution of Eddie James. Two groups trying to make sense of ...

Only one state — Alabama — allows the use of nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. The state made history last year with its first such execution and has conducted three others using ...

Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas ...

Four states-Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma-permit death by nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas execution method has been applied four times in Alabama. Louisiana officials claimed the ...

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Nitrogen hypoxia was approved by the state ... the Washington Examiner reported before Alabama became the first state to carry out the execution method. U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick blocked ...

Louisiana resumed capital punishment this week when it became the second state, behind Alabama, to use nitrogen gas to execute a convicted killer, reports the Associated Press. Witnesses ...

Until Tuesday, only one state, Alabama, had used nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. The state made history last year with its first such execution, and has conducted three others using nitrogen ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, using nitrogen gas for the first time amid Catholic criticism of both the death penalty itself and the mode of execution.

Hoffman's attorneys appealed and on Tuesday shortly before the execution, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop it in a narrow decision. Until Tuesday, only one state, Alabama, had used nitrogen gas ...

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 ...