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 ...

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Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening ... 19 minutes during what one official called a “flawless” execution, although one witness spoke of the inmate convulsing ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana carries out its first nitrogen gas execution on a man convicted of a killing decades ago, his lawyer says. NEWS ALERT: 2 hurt after small plane crash in Spotsylvania ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorities said, adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during what one official characterized ...

(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. Witnesses to the execution said Hoffman appeared ...

Anti-death penalty advocates and representatives from many faiths called for an end to executions in Louisiana and wished Jessie Hoffman peace at the moment of death.

(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. Report an error ...

(AP) — Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state's first execution by nitrogen gas.