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 ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask fastened tightly to their face for either 15 minutes or for 5 minutes after ...

This undated photo shows Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46 ... killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. with a new nitrogen gas method that unlatches possibilities for the state to someday ...

Louisiana put a condemned man to death using nitrogen gas in its first execution since ... which is scheduled to put an inmate to death by lethal injection for the first time since 2022.

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana’s execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed ...

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 ...