The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented a protocol allowing sentences for death row inmates to be carried out using the nitrogen hypoxia method ...

State legislators last year authorized nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental procedure tried just four times before in the nation's recorded history, as a means to execute death row prisoners.

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41.

PATIENT AND SEVERAL OTHERS. LOUISIANA IS ONE STEP CLOSER NOW TO BECOMING THE SECOND STATE TO EXECUTE SOMEONE USING NITROGEN HYPOXIA GAS. SO FAR, ONLY ALABAMA HAS DONE SO, BUT THREE OTHER STATES ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...

Frazier remained in Michigan custody until 2011 when the then-governors of the two states agreed to move him to Alabama’s ...

Attorneys for those on death row and death penalty opponents have called the method cruel. All of the men executed in Alabama using nitrogen shook or gasped to varying degrees on the gurney as ...