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

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

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Jessie Hoffman Jr. was executed in Louisiana on ...

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

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

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana ...