Louisiana used nitrogen gas to ... Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. After court battles earlier this month, attorneys for Hoffman had turned to the Supreme Court in last-ditch hopes of ...

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

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years ... the impending procedure, CBS News affiliate WAFB reported.

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 ...

Darrel Vannoy, Angola's warden, testified that the state would have needed too much extra equipment and supplies to perform executions by electrocution. In Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution ...