Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, has argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability ...

Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Mary Elliott in New Orleans, was strapped to a gurney and forced to ...

ANGOLA, La. — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's hard to imagine that just five years ago, the city of New Orleans looked completely different as the state ...