Louisiana put a condemned man to death using nitrogen gas in its first execution since 2010, making it only the second state to administer the controversial method. The execution of Jessie Hoffman ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Tuesday, all in Alabama. Last year, the method was used to execute Carey Dale Grayson for the killing of Vickie DeBlieux ...

(Caroline Tillman/Federal Public Defender's Office For the Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana via AP) Louisiana is set to execute a man using nitrogen gas for the first time. This execution ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

March 19 (UPI) --Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and ... body was found by a duck hunter on a dock by the Middle Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish on Nov. 28 ...

He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by nitrogen gas because it violates his religious freedoms. Molly Elliott's ...

Though a judge blocked the execution last week over concerns about the constitutionality of the nitrogen gas method, the ruling was quickly overturned on appeal. Another judge denied him on Tuesday.

Louisiana is scheduled to use nitrogen gas in an execution for the ... A duck hunter found her body near the Middle Pearl River in rural St. Tammany Parish. His legal team says he has transformed ...

On Tuesday the state did just that, carrying out its first execution since 2010. It used nitrogen gas, a method that was first used by Alabama last year and that was legalized by Louisiana ...

associate professor of anesthesiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas ...

School system officials have warned ... Carroll plans to bring middle and high schools into compliance by the next budget cycle and include elementary schools during the following year.