Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.

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

If Louisiana carries out the execution, it would join Alabama as the only two states to use nitrogen gas to put a prisoner to death. Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's attorneys have been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by the controversial and largely ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

Death by nitrogen gas is currently permitted in four states ... in late January after surviving a lethal injection attempt two years previously. The process took 22 minutes as he continuously ...

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

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

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

Two media witnesses to Tuesday's execution ... to dying" and that Hoffman appeared to be unconscious at the time. Nitrogen gas was first used in Alabama Each inmate put to death using nitrogen ...

Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years.