Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

In 2024, Alabama revived the method when it became the first state to use nitrogen gas to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith. A ...

Hoffman had been arguing that a firing squad would have been a preferable execution method to nitrogen gas. Louisiana imposed the nitrogen gas method on him, while all four Alabama inmates elected ...

Louisiana has executed a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, a first in the state's history, despite claims by the man's attorney that the method violated his freedom to practice his Buddhist faith ...

which has executed four people with nitrogen gas. If Hoffman’s capital punishment is carried out as scheduled, Louisiana will become the second state to use the method. Officials say Louisiana ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled ... attorneys for Hoffman argued that the execution method of nitrogen hypoxia is cruel ...

The method of using lethal gas to carry out an execution has recently shifted from cyanide to nitrogen. Throughout history, the states have used five different execution methods: lethal ...

The adoption of the method came just hours before Louisiana ended a 15-year pause on capital punishment with the nitrogen gas execution of Jessie Hoffman, marking the first time the method has ...

In 2024, Alabama revived the method when it became the first state to use nitrogen gas to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith. A mask is placed over a prisoner’s face and nitrogen gas is pumped in ...

Lethal Injection, Firing Squad and Nitrogen Gas. A Look at US Execution Methods HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 ...