When Louisiana carries out the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18, he will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a gas mask and forced to breathe in nitrogen gas until his heart stops. It will be ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening — the state's first execution in 15 years and its first using the largely-untested method — after a raging legal ...

The first person to be executed in America by way of nitrogen gas was Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama, just over a year ago. Witnesses said Smith writhed and seized for several torturous minutes ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s attorney general said Monday that another nitrogen gas execution will go forward in September after the state reached a settlement agreement with the inmate slated to ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill expanding execution methods beyond electrocution and lethal injection to include any method "not deemed unconstitutional." This change comes amid a surge in ...