Alabama this year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some death sentences, the first use of a new execution method in the United States since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.

Hoffman himself testified at the hearing and requested that the state use a different method to execute him, per NOLA.com. Alabama is the only state to use nitrogen gas for executions, and it has ...

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 ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott ...

A district judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop the execution last week, but a federal appeals court overturned the ...

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 ...

Alabama remains the only state to have tested out the nitrogen gas method, but Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma have legalized its use, according to reports. As Alabama sets this new course for ...

EXECUTIONS HERE IN LOUISIANA, SEVERAL METHODS HAVE BEEN USED OVER THE YEARS ... THE STATE LEGISLATURE VOTED TO REPLACE LETHAL INJECTION WITH NITROGEN GAS. SINCE WE WEREN’T ABLE TO ACQUIRE ...

It will be the first time the new execution method, using nitrogen gas to put someone to death, is used in Louisiana — and the first time in 15 years that the state has carried out an execution.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled its fourth execution by nitrogen gas as critics continue to argue the new method needs additional scrutiny. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a ...

Caroline Tillman/The Federal Public Defender's Office for the Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana Louisiana has executed a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, a first in the state's ...