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 ...

Rev. Jeff Hood wears a mask similar to those used in nitrogen gas executions in Louisiana and Alabama. Credit: Arielle Robinson Several activists who oppose the death penalty gathered at the chapel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...