Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

Louisiana officials are planning to carry out its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday after a judge denied death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's eleventh-hour arguments that it violates his ...

"Louisiana has never executed or attempted to execute a condemned inmate by nitrogen gassing, nor has the federal government," she wrote. Alabama is the lone state to have utilized nitrogen gas in ...

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 ...

(MENAFN) Louisiana carried ... has executed four prisoners with nitrogen gas since the previous year. The procedure involves administering nitrogen gas to the inmate via a mask, causing death ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana after the state struggled to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Hoffman, who was convicted of the rape and murder of 28 ...

(AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping ... Tuesday evening using nitrogen gas, which would be the first ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put ... The protocol called for the gas to be administered for at least 15 minutes or five minutes after the inmate’s heart rate reaches a flatline ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out ...