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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 19 (UPI) --Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night for the 1996 kidnapping ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP) — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Tuesday allowing executions using nitrogen gas, making Arkansas the fifth state to adopt a method that opponents say is unconstitutional. The ...