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

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 ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

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

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

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

Two media witnesses to Tuesday’s execution ... movements associated with oxygen deprivation. Alabama first used nitrogen gas to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death last year, marking the first ...

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

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 ...