Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is ...

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 ...

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Jr. using nitrogen gas, marking its first execution since 2010. Hoffman's lawyers sought to halt the execution, citing religious and constitutional concerns.

Louisiana has witnessed its first execution by nitrogen, with Jessie Hoffman Jr, convicted of murder and rape, being put to death just after 7pm local time. Hoffman's legal team made a last-ditch ...

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 ...

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Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the US state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus. Jessie Hoffman ...

Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening, his attorneys were hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas.

Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening, his attorneys were hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas. Louisiana ...

The apparatus used for nitrogen gas executions at Angola prison in Louisiana [Photo: Louisiana state courts] Louisiana ended its 15-year hiatus from state killings with the execution of Jessie ...

Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here when you come back,” she told the boy, who had voluntarily handed ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued ...