Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas ...

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation allowing the state to carry out executions using nitrogen gas.

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

Louisiana's protocol says death row inmates will be forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a respirator mask for 15 minutes or for 5 minutes after the inmate's heart rate reaches a flatline on an EKG ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...