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

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

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

Pope Francis, in hospital for more than a month with pneumonia, did not need to use an oxygen mask overnight as the ...

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

The planned execution at Angola will mark the first time Louisiana has used the lethal method on a death row inmate.