Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the ...
Alabama has long been ... and it will use the method of nitrogen hypoxia. No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty is, the use of nitrogen gas as an execution method is ...
He also declined a final meal. It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same ...
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama's attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for ...
Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution protocol, which was being kept secret from the public until now.
During last week's hearing, state officials described Louisiana's execution protocol using nitrogen gas to be nearly identical to Alabama's. Under the protocol, the subject is strapped to a gurney ...
The country’s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now been used to execute four people in the state. If Hoffman’s execution doesn’t get halted ...
The protocol closely mirrors that of Alabama, the only state to have carried out nitrogen gas executions in the ... public release of information about suppliers of death penalty materials.