HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas ... have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

If Louisiana carries out the execution, it would join Alabama as the only two states to use nitrogen gas to put a prisoner to death. Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana.