It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...

Pope Francis’s condition continued to improve Wednesday and he hasn’t needed to use the noninvasive mechanical ventilation to ...

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

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 ...