Louisiana resumed capital punishment this week when it became the second state, behind Alabama, to use nitrogen gas to execute a convicted killer, reports the Associated Press. Witnesses ...

Alabama first used nitrogen gas in 2024 to carry out an execution, marking the first time a new method was used in the U.S. since lethal injection was introduced in 1982. It is carried out by ...

From 1979 - 1999, 11 inmates were executed using this method, in which a prisoner would be strapped to a chair in an airtight chamber before it was filled with cyanide gas. Alabama first used nitrogen ...