Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the ...

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 ...

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 method — all in Alabama. Three other executions, by lethal injection ...

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." ...

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 ...