Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday.

Hazmat crews responded after a tanker truck carrying 4,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen overturned in South San Jose Tuesday night.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and ...

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...