Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.

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

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Louisiana officials are planning to carry out its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday after a judge denied death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's eleventh-hour arguments that it violates his ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation allowing the state to carry out executions using nitrogen gas.

If passed, Florida would join five other states that allow execution by firing squad and several others that allow nitrogen ...

Though a judge blocked the execution last week over concerns about the constitutionality of the nitrogen gas method, the ruling was quickly overturned on appeal. Another judge denied him on Tuesday.